While some see staffing agencies as more than a necessary evil for nursing homes amid industry-wide staffing shortages, lawmakers and industry advocates continue to push for more oversight and regulation over how these companies operate in the space. Earlier this week, U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota introduced the Travel Nursing Agency Transparency Study […]
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While the latest employment numbers show the health care sector grew by 28,000 jobs in May – including 1,300 nursing home jobs – staffing shortages continue to hold operators back, with many still limiting admissions and asking current staff to work overtime as a result. Employment in health care overall is still down 223,000 jobs […]
Finance leaders have updated their outlook on the nursing home sector – with data points worsening as funding cuts and inflation continue to do lasting damage to the industry. About 47% of nursing home residents are now at risk of displacement due to financially imperiled facilities; roughly 417,000 residents may be relocated, according to a […]
As nursing home operators scramble to get their temporary nurse aides (TNAs) certified and tested by Oct. 7, a new bill introduced this week seeks to extend some of the flexibility offered over the course of the pandemic. The temporary nurse aide program was among those earmarked to be discontinued by the Centers for Medicare […]
While the health care industry added an estimated 34,300 jobs in April, only 900 of those jobs were in the skilled nursing sector. The American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) called the data from the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report “a sight for sore eyes,” however, it’s still a far […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services temporary nurse aide waiver will come to an end early next month, leaving nursing homes just four months from the June 7 date to get thousands of temporary workers trained and certified — or risk losing them. TNAs hired after June 7 will have four months from their […]
While many skilled nursing industry providers expect occupancy recovery to be at least another year away, as census climbs toward numbers not seen since 2020, some remain less confident that long-term care will fully bounce back. “I think the truth for most of the industry is that we thought by now we would be at […]
For-profit nursing home owners such as private equity firms and real estate investment trusts are under fire from the federal government — but current trends suggest that not-for-profit ownership alone is not a viable alternative to meet the needs of the United States’ aging population. Freestanding senior housing and care not-for-profits (NFPs) are closing altogether, […]
More than one-third of nursing homes in the U.S. could be at financial risk if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services stands by its proposed funding cut and federal Medicaid dollars tied to the public health emergency end in 2022. That’s according to a report released on Thursday by the American Health Care Association/National […]
While nursing home COVID-19 death rates have plummeted – with just 1,000 nursing home resident and staff deaths reported over the past four weeks – some health care experts don’t think the sector is out of the woods quite yet. Between February 20 and March 20, 1 out of every 80 nursing home residents were […]
In light of steadily increasing vaccination rates for nursing home staff and residents, and overall improvement to outbreaks in the space, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Thursday said it is phasing out some of the temporary waivers linked to COVID-19 and the public health emergency (PHE). Among those is the temporary […]
Skilled nursing providers are looking for ways to get ahead as the long-term care industry increasingly moves toward a value-based payment world. Operators who have taken the leap to create their own in-house insurance plans are starting to see the move pay off in a big way, both on the clinical and financial side of […]
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveils its proposed payment rules for the coming fiscal year, some in the industry feel that what has already been issued for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs) and hospice providers does not “bode well” for the skilled nursing industry. A Mizuho Securities analyst note […]
Skilled nursing operators may soon face disastrous Medicare funding cuts, American Health Care Association President and CEO Mark Parkinson warned on Thursday. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is expected to release its latest proposed payment rule for skilled nursing providers in the coming weeks. While the nursing home sector has successfully fought […]
The nursing home industry has long been governed under a carrot and stick system, but some worry the Biden administration may be too focused on the latter in its recently unveiled reform proposals. While the reform’s staffing standards have been called “out of touch” and its emphasis on policing private equity is seen by some […]
Just a few weeks after the Biden administration unveiled its nursing home reform plans, which drew an association between, the American Health Care Association countered with its own evidence. A new report released from the industry’s largest trade group showed that 72% of the more than 110,000 infection control focused inspections of nursing homes conducted […]
As state and federal policymakers clamor to set nursing home minimum staffing standards – most recently in the Biden administration’s expansive reform proposals – leaders in the space are asking a pointed question: Why now? The industry has already lost nearly 238,000 caregivers in the last two years – an issue that has only been […]
The American Health Care Association President and CEO Mark Parkinson called on the entire nursing home industry to fight against the “offensive” nursing home reform package laid out by the Biden administration this month as rhetoric around the reform continues to ramp up. Parkinson and other health care officials feel lawmakers are “pointing the finger” […]
The American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) has asked for meetings with members of the Biden administration one week after the White House unveiled its sweeping nursing home reform proposal. The reforms, developed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through its Centers for Medicare & Medicaid […]
Nursing homes gained 1,600 jobs in February, a modest increase compared to home health and physician offices at 20,000 and 15,000, respectively, according to data compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The sector added 3,800 hires from December 2021 to January 2022, BLS data found. To put this data in perspective, nursing […]
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