Category: Post-Acute

HHS issued a proposed rule requiring nursing homes to disclose ownership and management information, including the provider of services to a facility.

A Florida nursing home administrator is on trial for the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma in 2017 in what his attorney calls a “scapegoat” case, ABC News reported Feb. 6.

An Alzheimer’s care facility in Iowa pronounced a 66-year-old woman dead, but funeral home staff unzipped her body bag to find her gasping for air, NPR reported Feb. 4.

A Wisconsin indictment charged Kevn Breslin, CEO of Park Ridge, N.J.-based Atrium Health and Senior Living, with a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid.

Aultman said Feb. 1 that it will cease operations at two skilled nursing facilities: the Transitional Care Center at Aultman Woodlawn in Canton, Ohio, and the Community Care Center at Aultman Alliance (Ohio) Community Hospital.

A string of recent lawsuits uncover a trend of nursing home owners moving money into their own pockets through corporate arrangements that are widespread — and legal — in every state, NPR reported Jan. 31.

CMS reported 128 nursing homes have closed or merged in 2022, but the count is likely higher.

A study by researchers at Boston-based Harvard Medical School researchers found specialty care visits fell after patients moved into a nursing home.

A federal class-action lawsuit intends to highlight and rectify how people with disabilities are being housed in nursing homes without proper resources or plans to transition them to appropriate settings, radio station GBH News reported Jan. 26.

Detroit-based Wayne State University researchers found a standardized hand-off procedure between hospitals to skilled nursing facilities that improved communication and decreased late medication administration.