Rural nursing homes and hospitals are at risk of shutting down as a result of Medicaid cuts outlined in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). At a regional level, Northwest Pennsylvania residents may find themselves driving further for care, with 15 nursing homes and five hospitals facing potential closure, according to a report from […]
Brown University School of Public Health
Close to 600 nursing homes across the nation could face increased risk of closure under proposed Medicaid cuts in the Republican budget bill, with the high-risk facilities disproportionately located in urban areas and concentrated in states like Illinois, Texas, California, Georgia, and Ohio. Nursing homes in some states will be even more deeply impacted by […]
Nursing homes could offer a crucial bridge to recovery for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD), but stigma, regulatory hurdles and funding challenges limit their potential. Researchers have highlighted policy solutions to ensure nursing homes can meet the needs of a growing and aging population with OUD, as part of a study led by Patience […]
Since the landmark passage of a sweeping oversight bill in the late 1980s, hundreds of nursing homes have closed — while those that remained have increasingly taken on more difficult medical cases, according to new research from Brown University. The analysis, which focused on the effects of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA […]
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