Category: Post-Acute

Dallas-based Reunion Rehabilitation Hospitals opened its inpatient rehab hospital in Arlington, Texas and named Rob Smart its CEO.

The American Hospital Association and the American Health Care Association sent a joint letter to CMS urging the agency to consider ways to bolster the nursing home workforce instead of implementing federal staffing minimums. 

Newsweek and Statista, a global data research firm, have released their “2023 America’s Best Nursing Homes” list.

A study from the AARP Public Policy Institute found family caregivers in the U.S. provide $600 billion worth of unpaid care each year.

A 23-year-old man was shot and killed in his bed at a long-term care facility March 11, The Mercury News reported.

The Pennsylvania health department placed a nursing home in immediate jeopardy after it did not give its residents their medications for two days, PennLive reported March 1. 

The U.S. and New York state settled with eight nursing home owners for $7,168,000 to resolve allegations they submitted claims to Medicaid for worthless services provided to residents.

A judge acquitted Jorge Carballo, a Florida nursing home administrator who faced manslaughter charges for the death of nine residents, during the third week of his trial, radio station WLRN reported Feb. 25.

Here are four nursing homes where workers are picketing, have gone on strike recently or are threatening to strike:

A former Florida nursing home owner has been charged with willfully failing to pay $6 million in taxes that were withheld from employees’ paychecks over to the IRS.