LTC Properties, PruittHealth joint venture buys 3 Florida SNFs for $62 million
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 13, 2022
LTC Properties announced Monday a $62 million joint venture with Norcrorss, GA-based PruittHealth to buy three skilled nursing facilities in northern Florida. PruittHealth is a new partner for the Westlake...
Bake sale-supported nursing home turns to assisted living to survive
By
Josh Henreckson
Apr 05, 2024
A Rhode Island nursing home that had turned to a grassroots funding campaign that included a resident-run bake sale to avoid closure is reworking one of its floors into a memory-care focused assisted...
Eskaton sells SNFs to Cypress for $35.6 million to focus on senior living, home care
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 10, 2023
Carmichael, CA-based provider Eskaton is selling its three stand-alone skilled nursing facilities for $35.6 million as part of a plan to “expand and enhance” the company’s offerings in independent...
Fitch says ratings changes could benefit SNF-heavy CCRCs
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 18, 2024
Fitch Ratings’ proposed changes to the way it rates not-for-profit continuing care retirement / life plan communities are designed to provide “much more transparency around [communities] that don’t...
Pressing questions about rural telehealth access and investments put innovation in danger
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 23, 2024
Questions remain about how much providers will be able to rely on telehealth, remote monitoring and other technologies to come in the years ahead — and whether the government will make the needed legal,...
Should home healthcare be a new focus for Medicare Advantage?
By
Jeff Fox
Apr 20, 2021
Home-based services are not a common, or even widely accepted, part of most Medicare Advantage plans. However, there have been some signs that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have begun...
Biden administration sets nursing home staffing minimums
Apr 23, 2024
The first-ever minimum staffing rule has been set for nursing homes, the Biden administration announced Monday.
Assisted living’s ‘fragile’ workforce is under ‘threat’ from SNF staffing rule: NCAL leaders
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 04, 2024
Assisted living providers must brace for the impact of increased regulation, experts at the AHCA/NCAL Congressional Briefing warned Monday.
55 percent of surveyed SNFs operating in the red, limiting admissions: AHCA
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 11, 2023
Fifty-five percent of skilled nursing providers responding to a recent survey by the American Health Care Association say that they are operating in the red, and 48% of respondents said that they would...
OSHA doubles down on long-term care workplace inspections
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 10, 2022
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration from March 9 to June 9 will devote 15% of all of its workplace inspections per region to nursing homes, assisted living communities and hospitals that...