Maryland becomes sixth state to require salary, wage disclosures in job listings
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 10, 2024
Effective Oct. 1, Maryland will join five other states and the District of Columbia in requiring employers to disclose salary or wage ranges upfront in job listings.
Business briefs, March 27
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 27, 2024
Care facilities in Iowa fined for failure to administer CPR, failure to call 911 … Petersen bankruptcy likely to involve selling facilities to multiple buyers: lawyer … Arizona AG asks court to seize...
Business briefs, March 25
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 25, 2024
REITs capitalize on aging population with surge of investments in healthcare properties … Phillip Esformes’ fraud case has lessons for assisted living, skilled nursing … Advocates call on state legislature...
Business briefs, March 5
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 05, 2024
AG promises to ‘strike down’ provider arbitration agreements with ‘secrecy clauses’
after settlement … VA General Assembly passes legislation to help financial institutions, employees identify...
Business briefs, March 27
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 27, 2023
Bill closes ‘loophole’ in provider background checks … USCIS lifts COVID-related flexibilities … Biden’s budget would strengthen Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, HCBS, senator says … ORA...
Business briefs, March 22
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 22, 2023
State bill would increase Medicaid reimbursements to veterans homes … Fitch Ratings affirms Emerald Heights at A-; outlook stable … Biden vetoes Republican block of ESG considerations in retirement...
Business briefs, March 20
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 20, 2023
Workers to strike at 7 Michigan SNFs … 18 Republican governors rally against Biden’s ESG plan … Wisconsin allocates $7M to add assisted living unit at minimum security prison … Utah becomes most...
Massachusetts AG will appeal court decision to dismiss landmark COVID case alleging nursing home neglect
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 16, 2021
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed a notice of appeal Tuesday in Hampden County Superior Court seeking to overturn a lower court’s dismissal of criminal charges lodged against two leaders...
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...
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...