Ventas declares first-quarter dividend of $0.45 per common share … Bridge Senior Living adds assisted living, memory care community in South Portland, ME … VITAS to pay $85M to buy Covenant Care hospice...
Simple smart technology is ‘game-changing’ for home care, tech CEO says
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jun 03, 2021
Inexpensive smart home technology can mean the difference between aging in place or aging in a senior care facility.
CMS further delays start of Primary Care First-Seriously Ill Population model
By
Joe Jancsurak
Mar 17, 2021
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has disclosed another delay — but no definitive timeline — of its Primary Care First-Seriously Ill Population physician payment model, which the hospice...
Business briefs, Sept. 6
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 06, 2024
Labor Department launches severe injury report dashboard … Social Security Administration digitizes or removes signature requirements for many forms … Survey highlights LTC insurance distributions...
Alzheimer’s prognosis models should expand data sources
By
Kristen Fischer
Aug 12, 2024
Integrating data from nursing home electronic health records (EHRs) and claims in addition to the minimum data set (MDS) — data required for nursing home residents — could be better than just relying...
Providers, patients would benefit from hospice telehealth extension, doc offers
By
Rachael Zimlich
Jul 31, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a lot of changes in healthcare, and not all were bad. In the years since the coronavirus forced worldwide lockdowns and limited access to care, the healthcare industry has...
Hospice bill’s information reporting provision raises industry concerns
By
Adam Healy
Jul 17, 2024
A couple provisions in a landmark piece of hospice legislation are cause for concern among hospice stakeholders. Providers, however, generally believe that, if passed, the bill would modernize the Medicare...
‘Private equity abuse’ in long-term care is target of new federal bill
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 13, 2024
Two Democratic senators from Massachusetts have introduced a bill they say is meant to “root out corporate greed and private equity abuse” in nursing homes, assisted living communities, home health...
Actions & Transactions, June 7
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 07, 2024
Legend assumes management, renames 4 Florida properties; increases portfolio to 59 … ESI arranges $8.5M sale of post-acute rehab facility in Las Vegas … Dover Health expands into Chicago with acquisition...
Working conditions, not personal reasons, causing nurses to leave long-term care: study
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 10, 2024
Insufficient staffing was the most common reason that nurses left their work in residential and nursing homes, followed by burnout or emotional exhaustion, in a study published Tuesday in JAMA Network...