Clifton J. Porter II kicked off his first day as president and CEO of the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living this week – the transition comes after Porter was tapped to take on the role in July. Former AHCA/NCAL leader Mark Parkinson led the organization for 14 years prior to […]
Category: Staffing
The number of states challenging the federal minimum staffing mandate has now grown to 21 states, after 20 states filed a joint lawsuit. As of Tuesday, Iowa’s attorney general was the latest to sue the Biden-Harris administration, challenging the nursing home federal minimum staffing mandate along with Kansas, Virginia, South Carolina, and other mostly Republican-led […]
Nursing homes looking to best utilize QAPI, or the quality assurance and performance improvement program, should think beyond the obvious clinical compliance and care benefits to residents. QAPI is usually seen as a way to reduce falls or tighten up medication management, but operators can do a lot more with the data besides using it […]
For some nursing homes, quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) meetings serve merely as a checkbox for requirements, but they haven’t driven changes to improve care quality outcomes. On the flip side, however, other nursing homes are effectively using QAPI meetings to push for success in quality of care. Executives at these facilities emphasize that […]
Nursing homes and hospitals are developing closer ties and improving communication, and with this trend, admissions into nursing homes are expected to increase as rehospitalizations and excessive lengths of stay are also seen as declining. With rising acuity and staffing shortages of recent years, nursing homes have often been reluctant in admitting challenging cases that […]
Longevity Health and Infinity Healthcare Consulting on Wednesday announced a joint venture for institutional special needs plans (I-SNPs), marking Longevity’s entry into three new states, along with the expansion of its existing business into an additional state. Longevity and Infinity’s clients will collaborate to assist I-SNP members living in Infinity nursing facilities across Indiana, Kentucky […]
Pennsylvania bankruptcy court late Monday approved the $53 million sale of nine nursing homes in the state to affiliates of Kadima Healthcare Group, as part of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings for more than a dozen facilities operating under Comprehensive Healthcare Management Solutions. Notably, transaction documents do not transfer assets to any insiders, affiliates, officers or […]
As states in Hurricane Helene’s path grapple with its devastating effects days after it made landfall in Florida Thursday evening, nursing home operators are dealing with significant repair and maintenance challenges that could last a while – particularly in states like North Carolina. Damage to transportation, power and utilities could make recovery in some states […]
In weathering the rise of managed care penetration – which has often meant lost profits – nursing homes are turning to centralized processes for handling claims, beefing up teams to handle additional documentation requests (ADRs), and closely tracking contract renewals. Rates for managed care plans like Medicare Advantage are often lower than traditional fee-for-service Medicare […]
Newsweek released its list of top nursing homes for 2025 on Wednesday, ranking facilities within each state according to number of beds. Newsweek recognized 1,050 nursing homes across 25 states with the highest number of facilities, using data published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in partnership with the global research firm […]
Nursing home operators could strengthen their workforces by taking lessons from the way colleges and universities strategically recruit football players and other athletes. That’s an idea put forward by Nicole Kaufman, chief transformation officer at Genesis HealthCare, at the recent Skilled Nursing News RETHINK conference in Chicago. Kennett Square, Pennsylvania-based Genesis is one of the […]
Coming off of his first year as CEO of American Senior Communities Steve Van Camp is busy planning an Institutional Special Needs Plan (I-SNP) joint venture with five other providers in Indiana, while also devoting time and resources to meeting quality measures and outcomes among ASC facilities. Important considerations to forge ahead with these efforts […]
Of an estimated 36 million Americans with a family member or friend in a nursing home, only 37% say their loved one is receiving high-quality care. And political affiliation aside, older adults want public policies that support and improve quality care. That’s according to a study issued by The John A. Hartford Foundation. Based on […]
The timing and feasibility of the federal staffing mandate continue to haunt nursing home operators and communities, particularly those in rural areas, where providers across the health care continuum are competing to find clinical staff. Take for example, the case of a nursing home owned by Diversicare Healthcare Services in Yorktown, Texas, which is one […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Friday filed a 75,000-page administrative record for its defense of the nursing home staffing mandate. It’s the first movement from CMS since the American Health Care Association (AHCA) filed a lawsuit challenging the mandate in May. The 75,000 pages were shared via a file-sharing device between […]
As the industry fights the unfunded federal minimum staffing mandate in court, nursing home executive compensation is under scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers, who are criticizing some leaders in the sector for giving themselves pay raises. However, leaders in the sector are pushing back. Specifically, the executive pay of three major operators – The Ensign Group […]
Customer service, staff wellbeing, and tackling low reimbursement rates are some of the top priorities for nursing home operators as they prepare for the future. And educating and supporting care teams is especially important in order to strategize with the quality measures that will be implemented in the coming years, as these will have an […]
Kaiser Permanente announced the permanent closure of its last nursing home in California, resulting in 249 job losses across various roles. The job cuts involve administrators, physical therapists, dietitians, licensed vocational nurses, and certified nursing assistants. The decision to shut down the facility follows a gradual decline in patient numbers over the last 11 years, […]
An ongoing depletion of knowledgeable nursing staff at nursing homes, such as the Minimum Data Set (MDS) coordinators, is leading to errors and confusion with facility surveys and ratings. This, in turn, is impacting operations and the ability to acquire and improve distressed facilities. A high turnover among those close to the survey process is […]
At the heart of many successful workforce initiatives that nursing homes are pursuing to increase the number of workers is the push for employee well-being and a recognition that many frontline workers face fundamental and systemic barriers to entering the workforce. To that end, an organization that is enabling skilled nursing providers to grow their […]
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