A five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) can boost a skilled nursing facility’s profile in a community and perhaps attract increased attention — and dollars — from potential investors. But savvy buyers should consider the wider context of a particular SNF’s Nursing Home Compare stars, as buried beneath a supposedly “bad” […]
The American Health Care Act (AHCA)—the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare—would alter the way Medicaid is funded, and could influence more states to shift care back to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), according to a recent report. By switching Medicaid financing to per capita caps, which provides states with an aggregate amount of funding […]
Younger certified nursing assistants (CNAs) tend to have different complaints about the skilled nursing workplace than older CNAs, and awareness of these generational differences could be the first step toward more effective retention efforts. That’s one key takeaway from a small study out of Armstrong State University in Savannah, Ga. Researchers surveyed 100 CNAs at […]
HCR ManorCare CEO Paul Ormond has asked for the immediate payment of a $100 million deferred settlement package stemming from a private equity takeover of the company back in 2007, according to a report in the New York Post. The Carlyle Group, a Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm, bought the Toledo, Ohio-based HCR ManorCare a decade ago […]
