It’s been a difficult week in the world of skilled nursing, with investigators still attempting to determine what went wrong at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills in Hollywood, Fla., where a lack of power in the wake of Hurricane Irma led to the deaths of eight residents. As of Friday morning, about 50 of […]
Florida Health Care Association
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in Florida and elsewhere in the Southeast are facing an enormous test. Hurricane Irma forced an unprecedented number of evacuations prior to making landfall in Florida early Sunday morning, with the storm’s size and severity creating complications as SNFs executed their emergency plans. Irma is expected to weaken by Monday morning, […]
Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed into law this week a health care bill that will bring a prospective payment system (PPS) to skilled nursing providers for Medicaid, but a statewide trade group says it has several issues with the legislation that it hopes to address before it takes full effect in 2018. Under the new law, […]