The American Hospital Association sent letters to the Senate and House June 25 urging them to stop CMS from enforcing its final rule on minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.
Maryland’s director of the agency that regulates nursing homes and hospital safety resigned effective June 27 — about a month after a lawsuit was filed alleging the agency failed to properly inspect facilities, The Washington Post reported June 20.
Tacoma, Wash.-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health is closing its outpatient rehabilitation and physical therapy clinic in Port Orchard, Wash., July 12, Gig Harbor Now reported June 20.
Following an 18-month investigation, the U.S. Justice Department found that the state of Missouri violated the Americans with Disabilities Act for “unnecessarily institutionalizing adults with mental health disabilities in nursing facilities,” accordin…
After more than two years of a looming threat of closure, San Francisco-based Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center has been approved for Medicare recertification, according to San Francisco city news release.
Patients at Joint Commission-accredited nursing homes get fewer catheter-associated urinary tract infections and fewer central line-associated bloodstream infections than those at nonaccredited ones, a study published in the June 2024 issue of The Join…