Category: Post-Acute

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.

Around 67 nursing home residents died of COVID-19 the week ending March 27, the lowest level since the onset of the pandemic, The New York Times reported April 3.

Implementing a federal minimum staffing standard for nursing homes would cost at least $4.9 billion a year, a recent study published in Innovations in Aging found.

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