Category: Post-Acute

Minnesota is reporting the highest rate of nursing home staffing shortages in the U.S. while California is reporting the lowest, according to an April 15 analysis from Seniorly.

CMS cut funding to San Francisco-based Laguna Honda Hospital, one of the largest skilled nursing facilities in the country, after a recent inspection found a new list of violations, The San Francisco Chronicle reported April 14.

The increased scrutiny of the nursing home industry following President Joe Biden’s reform plans has led to increased interest from lawmakers, namely an investigation into private equity firms’ ownership of nursing homes, Kaiser Health Network reported…

CMS is proposing to adjust skilled nursing facility payment rates downward by 4.6 percent, which decreases Medicare payments to facilities by approximately $320 million, it said April 11.

Below are eight hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that have recently posted job listings seeking post-acute care talent.

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., recently urged Congress to open an investigation into the “horrific practices and pervasive failures” of the nursing home industry in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, namely facilities owned by real estate investment trusts…

CMS is phasing out a series of protocols implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic for nursing homes to restore certain minimum standards, it said in a memorandum issued April 7.

Sweeping changes are needed at a systemic level in order to improve the quality of care in nursing homes, according to an April 6 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on the Quality of Care in Nursing Hom…

Orlando (Fla.) Health will open a freestanding, 54-bed inpatient facility to meet current and anticipated demand for rehabilitative care in the area, the system said April 6.

Below are seven hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that have recently posted job listings seeking post-acute care talent.