Lawmakers say CMS should ban Medicare Advantage’s use of AI to deny care
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 28, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should consider banning artificial intelligence from being used to deny Medicare Advantage coverage pending a “systematic review,” a group of 49 congressional...
Building a ‘destination workplace’ in long-term care requires diverse investments, active listening...
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 28, 2024
Faced with today’s complex array of financial, staffing and regulatory challenges, senior living and other long-term care providers across the care continuum must rely on an equally broad range of solutions,...
A.G. Rhodes openly sharing the path to the future of long-term care via its $37.5M ‘household’ renovation
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 20, 2024
After nearly a decade of planning, fundraising and a $37.5 million construction and renovation project, Atlanta-based provider AG Rhodes officially opened its new 72-bed “household-model” building...
Providers need ‘coherent story’ to combat data misrepresentation in legal cases, public opinion:...
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 12, 2024
Complex data available about long-term care is often misused against providers — but they can use that same data to defend themselves
Mentorship, honesty are crucial to retaining senior living leaders of tomorrow, speakers say
By
Josh Henreckson
May 17, 2024
Cultivating mentorships in senior living and care is vital to bringing up and retaining the next generation of sector leaders, a group of six prominent women leaders said this week during a McKnight’s...
MDS ‘alarm’ bells key to quality gains in heightened reporting environment: expert
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Josh Henreckson
May 07, 2024
Patterns revealed by Minimum Data Set entries can help providers perform better on quality measures, if it is used to better understand and act on problem areas.
More than 80% of nursing homes do not meet the updated requirements in the final staffing mandate from CMS.
McKnight’s Spirit Awards to go to 4 inspirational women in long-term care
By
Adam Healy
Josh Henreckson
Foster Stubbs
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 22, 2024
Four women have been chosen as the third class of Spirit Award winners as part of the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction program.
Bake sale-supported nursing home turns to assisted living to survive
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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...
‘Granny cam’ bill joins national trend toward greater long-term care room monitoring
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 26, 2024
Adding to what has become a national trend, Iowa’s state legislature has advanced a bill that would allow residents and their families to install cameras in nursing home rooms.