HHS issues new guidance for Provider Relief Fund reporting
By
Amy Novotney
Sep 22, 2020
The Department of Health and Human Services issued its Provider Relief Fund Reporting Requirements Saturday, specifying the data that providers who received more than $10,000 in relief fund payments will...
Until we increase the sector’s resources, ‘nothing is going to change’: Parkinson
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Amy Novotney
Mar 12, 2021
If the nursing home system is going to attempt any kind of transformation post-pandemic, the sector must see an increase in Medicaid reimbursement rates, staff wages and facility accountability.
REIT stocks finish one of their worst weeks ever
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Amy Novotney
Mar 16, 2020
Last week marked one of the worst weeks of all time for U.S. equity real estate investment trust stocks, as the coronavirus pandemic spread and fear in the investment world intensified, according to an...
House passes $2.2T in COVID-19 relief
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Amy Novotney
Oct 05, 2020
The House passed a $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill on Thursday, but the bill is unlikely to get through the Republican-led Senate and become law, according to reports by CNBC. Senate Majority Leader...
Bloomberg: Coronavirus may end America’s embrace of retirement communities and nursing homes
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Amy Novotney
Apr 22, 2020
An editorial in Bloomberg Tuesday explored the largely voluntary movement over the past century in the United States toward herding people over the age of 65 into special communities built around their...
Sabra reports occupancy declines due to COVID-19; other companies also negatively affected
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Amy Novotney
May 08, 2020
Irvine, CA-based Sabra Health Care REIT declared a quarterly cash dividend of 30 cents per share of common stock Wednesday, to be paid on May 29 to common stockholders of record as of the close of business...
More tech needed to plug long-term care ‘service gap,’ one industry expert says
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Amy Novotney
Mar 02, 2021
The impending intersection of a growing older adult population and the ongoing inadequate number of caregivers employed to assist them makes it imperative that senior living and care operators continue...
Invest in tech for large-scale gains over time, execs urge
By
Amy Novotney
Dec 01, 2021
Now is the time to commit to improving your organization’s data
and analytics capacity, report authors insist.
Maryland announces plan to stop funding nursing home COVID-19 testing, prompting industry outcry
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Amy Novotney
Jul 30, 2020
Costs related to coronavirus testing forced Maryland state leaders to peg August 15 as the date the state will no longer be able to pick up the tab for mandatory weekly COVID-19 testing of nursing home...
Two major tenants failed to pay rents in the first quarter as a result of ongoing challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading some to remain concerned about the operating metrics of Westlake Village,...