Category: Post-Acute

Thornton, Colo.-based Vibra Hospital of Denver has the lowest potentially preventable readmission rate among long-term care hospitals, according to CMS data.

As part of its newly launched Nursing Home Staffing Campaign, CMS is offering eligible nursing homes an opportunity to apply for Financial Incentive Administrator designation. If approved, facilities will receive funding to recruit and retain registere…

A fire at Mount Carmel (Pa.) Senior Living Community sent 20 people to area hospitals with minor injuries, according to a Jan. 4 report from NBC affiliate WGAL.

The Joint Commission has revised its accreditation criteria for assisted living communities and nursing care centers with the aim of preventing workplace violence.

At least 18 staffers at Colonial Heights (Va.) Rehabilitation and Nursing Center have been charged with elder abuse and neglect after a patient death, The Progress-Index reported Dec. 18.

Cleveland Clinic is investigating whether there are better ways to detect delirium in geriatric emergency patients.

CMS has launched a Nursing Home Staffing Campaign to address industry-wide workforce shortage concerns as organizations attempt to stop an impending minimum nursing home staffing rule in the courts. 

The Delaware Court of Chancery ruled in favor of Birmingham, Ala.-based Encompass Health and its home health and hospice division, Enhabit, in a lawsuit against two private equity firms and three former Encompass officers who now run home health and ho…

Medicaid payment rates given to the average nursing home covered about 82 cents per dollar of care costs for Medicaid residents, according to a recent federal government report. 

Nursing home officials said they are counting on the Trump administration to reverse an impending Biden-era staffing level mandate, KFF Health News reported Dec. 3.