Ignite Medical Resorts Partners With Thrive Personalized Medical Rehabilitation to Manage 3 SNFs

Ignite Medical Resorts is continuing on its growth path through its most recent partnership with Thrive Personalized Medical Rehabilitation to manage daily operations at three of Thrive’s centers in Illinois. As of Sept. 1 Ignite will serve as the management provider for Thrive of Fox Valley, Thrive of Lisle and Thrive of Lake County. Ignite […]

White House Throws Its Weight Behind SNF Value-Based Purchasing Expansion, with Staffing Measures Targeted

The value-based purchasing program (VBP) available to skilled nursing facilities, while garnering the attention of the Biden administration in its sweeping reform initiatives, was already under the microscope with federal agencies. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) already has been authorized to apply nine measures to the program in adherence with the Consolidated […]

SNFs Battle for Post-Acute Market Share as Competitors Rise

Skilled nursing operators are trying to adjust to how the Covid-19 pandemic changed the care continuum, with patients now embarking on different pathways after hospital stays. Not only are more patients going directly to home health, but long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) and inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) also have started to play more prominent roles […]

Priorities, Plans and Perspectives: Brian Cloch, Principal at Innovative Health

In this Priorities, Plans & Perspectives interview, Skilled Nursing News sits down with Brian Cloch, Principal at Innovative Health, to learn about how he manages the rotating roster of day-to-day challenges by staying nimble and maintaining an industry mastermind group that looks out for one another. Read on to discover how Cloch’s perspective has changed […]

Vaccine Mandate Reignites Call for Federal Funding for Nursing Homes

While the Biden administration’s decision to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations at nursing homes across the country received immediate criticism from lobbying groups and operators that already face worsening staff shortage challenges, others say it could put more pressure on the federal government to better support nursing homes. “If anything positive came out of this it [will […]

[UPDATED] Nursing Home Staff Must Be Vaccinated, Biden Administration Says

Following the Biden administration’s announcement that all nursing home staff must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or risk losing Medicare and Medicaid funding, operators and senior living organization leaders fear singling out one group of health care workers will only exacerbate a continued staffing crisis. Some state mandates, on the other hand, call on all health […]

Skilled Nursing Providers Getting Squeezed As More Patients Go to IRFs Amid Pandemic

During Covid-19, skilled nursing facilities have seen their admissions squeezed as more patients have gone straight from hospitals to their own homes for recovery. But more complex cases are also being diverted away from SNFs, toward inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) and long-term acute-care hospitals (LTACs). It’s a trend highlighted in an analysis from consulting firm […]

COVID-19 Shows Need for New Nursing Home Model — But That Won’t Happen Without New Operators, Investors

Operators of skilled nursing facilities for years have dealt with the aging post-acute and long-term care infrastructure across the U.S., coping with problems ranging from multi-resident rooms to poor plumbing to outdated building design. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became apparent that poor building design was more than a headache for cash-strapped operators; in the […]

Five Years in the Making, Thrive Sees Post-COVID Upside in Three New Skilled Nursing Facilities

Developing new post-acute and long-term care infrastructure during normal times isn’t always easy — in fact, for one Illinois company, the phased opening of three new skilled nursing facilities this year represented the culmination of more than five years of work. But as COVID-19 continues to reveal the fatal shortcomings of outdated nursing home design, […]

Inside Innovative Health’s $80 Million Skilled Nursing Construction Push

Despite a general lack of new construction in the skilled nursing space, one owner/operator stands out for building three brand-new skilled nursing facilities in the Chicagoland area. And when many companies are paring down staff and consolidating, Brad Haber, principal owner and operator at Innovative Health, LLC, is midway through spearheading three SNF construction projects […]