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.
Category: Post-Acute
2 Ohio skilled nursing facilities to close, affecting 187 workers
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.
Federal, state governments cracking down on nursing home payments to affiliated companies
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.
128 nursing homes closed in 2022: Numbers by state
CMS reported 128 nursing homes have closed or merged in 2022, but the count is likely higher.
Specialty care decreases once patients move into a nursing home: study
A study by researchers at Boston-based Harvard Medical School researchers found specialty care visits fell after patients moved into a nursing home.
The housing crisis strands many with disabilities in nursing homes. A lawsuit wants to change that.
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.
New standardized hand-off procedure reduced late medication administration by 77%
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.
Nursing homes have worst job loss of any healthcare sector: 3 notes
An analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data found nursing homes have experienced the worst job loss of any healthcare sector.
1,300 nursing homes had a 75% COVID-19 infection rate: 9 notes
An HHS report released in January found that more than 1,000 nursing homes had a 75 percent or higher rate of infection during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
CMS takes steps to improve nursing home safety, transparency
The Biden-Harris administration and CMS are enacting new rules aimed at reducing the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications and increasing transparency about nursing home citations to families.
