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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
At a time when skilled nursing facility operators like Chicago-based Innovative Health feel like they are getting squeezed as patients head for home health or acute rehab facilities, SNFs will need to find new ways to show their value in the modern post-acute care continuum. One way SNFs could find success in improving clinical outcomes […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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