Category: Post-Acute

CMS is adding information on providers’ affiliations to Medicare Care Compare, a consumer search tool for home health, hospice and other Medicare-reimbursed health care services.

New Orleans nursing home operator, Bob Dean, has reached a $12.5 million settlement in his class action lawsuit, ABC affiliate WGNO reported Nov. 7.

Basin, Wy.-based Three Rivers Health has closed its nursing home, resulting in $900,000 a year in savings, Wyoming Public Radio reported Nov. 8.

Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health and Birmingham, Ala.-based Encompass Health plan to build a rehabilitation hospital in Louisville, Ky.

The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living sent a joint letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requesting an extension of the public health emergency.

CMS has updated its nursing home staff vaccination requirements to 100 percent in order to be compliant.

CMS is increasing oversight and scrutiny of the nation’s poorest-performing nursing homes with updates to its Special Focus Facilities program.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan will disburse $50 million to nursing homes and hospitals to ease workforce challenges and COVID-related barriers, Maryland News reported Oct. 16.

San Francisco city officials and federal regulators reached a settlement regarding Laguna Honda, the city’s largest nursing home that was slated to close Nov. 13, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Oct. 12.

Only 74 percent of nursing home residents in the U.S. and 51 percent of all staff had received one or more COVID-19 booster shots as of Sept. 18, data published Oct. 6 from the Kaiser Family Foundation found.