Occupancy loss, recovery in SNFs varies by market: NIC analysis
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 07, 2022
Occupancy loss among freestanding skilled nursing facilities during the height of the pandemic mainly was a function of a demand contraction, which varied across the markets. That’s according to an analysis...
Business briefs for Friday, March 26
Mar 26, 2021
‘Detrimental to patients and taxpayers’: House hearing lambasts private-equity ownership in nursing home industry …To improve nursing home staffing, nursing curriculums should train more focus on...
Parkinson: Skilled nursing still amid business nightmare
By
Amy Novotney
Feb 03, 2021
As COVID-19 vaccines continue to be rolled out at skilled nursing facilities and assisted living communities nationwide, the “clinical nightmare” soon will be in the long-term care industry’s rearview...
Skilled care M&A market now one of best on record: ESI
By
Amy Novotney
Nov 04, 2020
Although the skilled nursing industry — as much of the economy — appears to be in a constant state of flux given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the election, one real estate brokerage firm says...
Total value of investment-grade seniors housing and care property market close to $475B in 2019: NIC
By
Amy Novotney
Oct 07, 2020
The total value of the investment-grade seniors housing and care property market is estimated at $474.5 billion, assuming an average $210,000 price per unit for seniors housing properties and an average...
Maryland announces plan to stop funding nursing home COVID-19 testing, prompting industry outcry
By
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...
COVID-19 pushed SNF occupancy to lowest levels since 2012 in March: NIC
By
Amy Novotney
Jun 02, 2020
Skilled nursing occupancy numbers suffered their biggest hit since 2012 in March, as the initial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic began to set in. According to monthly data released Monday from the National...
McKnight’s 40 for 40: Mary Ousley
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 13, 2020
To paraphrase an old television commercial, when Mary Ousley talks, people listen.
The Ensign Group adds 9 skilled nursing facilities to portfolio
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 04, 2022
The Ensign Group announced the addition of nine skilled nursing facilities to its portfolio on Monday. Six are in Texas, two are in South Carolina and one is in Arizona.
CDC says universal masking can be dropped in some nursing homes, hospitals
Sep 26, 2022
Masking ‘remains recommended’ during an outbreak among patients or “when caring for patients who are moderately to severely immunocompromised.”