Bob Dean Jr., a Louisiana nursing home owner and operator, agreed to pay another $8.2 million to resolve federal allegations that he misappropriated and misused nursing home assets and income before and during the landfall of Hurricane Ida in August 20…
Providence has eliminated three speech-language pathologist positions from its Providence Home Health Portland team in Oregon, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s.
The Joint Commission has revised its home health agency accreditation survey process to align with similar CMS guideline updates published March 15.
A federal judge has thrown out a COVID-19-related wrongful death lawsuit against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, CBS affiliate WRGB reported Sept. 30.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has denied the sale of three nonprofit SSM Health nursing facilities to a New Jersey-based for-profit company, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Sept. 27.
CMS has issued a memo reminding nursing homes to facilitate their residents’ right to vote. Guidance for nursing home administrators is included in the memo.
The older adult population is expected to reach 82.1 million by 2050, yet less than 1% of physicians specialize in their care, according to a recent study of Americans over the age of 65.
Here are 14 rehabilitation hospital CEO, president and administrator appointments from the past 12 months, including from Cincinnati-based Mercy Health and Birmingham, Ala.-based Encompass Health:
A total of 0.8% of patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease follow up hospitalization with pulmonary rehabilitation treatment, according to a study published Aug. 13 in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente will close its last skilled nursing facility in the state, the Kaiser Permanente Post Acute Care Center in San Leandro, the health system said in a Sept. 10 statement shared with Becker’s.
