How Skilled Nursing Providers are Dealing with ‘Very Heavy Burden’ of Rising Patient Acuity

Operators in the nursing home space are dealing with a crippling workforce shortage and rising costs of care – all while seeing continued higher acuity among residents. Providers and vendors in the space agree they’re seeing a larger proportion of patients with higher acuity, but the definition of acuity varies along with methods to measure […]

Voices: Ingrid Svensson, Chief Product Officer, MatrixCare

This article is sponsored by MatrixCare. In this Voices interview, Skilled Nursing News sits down with Ingrid Svensson, Chief Product Officer of MatrixCare, to learn how technology has helped the skilled nursing industry get control over the clinical aspects of COVID-19. She also discusses the new long-term care data cooperative partnership between MatrixCare, AHCA and […]

Voices: Eric Grunden, Chief Customer Officer, MatrixCare

This article is sponsored by MatrixCare. In this Voices interview, Skilled Nursing News sits down with MatrixCare Chief Customer Officer Eric Grunden to learn how his team takes the vendor-customer relationship to a new level. Eric talks about the function of a tech partner versus a vendor, and he explains why it’s effective at any […]

VOICES: John Weatherbie, Chief Technology Officer, MatrixCare

This article is sponsored by MatrixCare. In this Voices interview, Skilled Nursing News sits down with MatrixCare Chief Technology Officer John Weatherbie to learn the top ways that data analytics can be applied to improving operations, why nearly all referring hospitals are conducting business digitally, and why those health systems expect their partners to do […]

Voices: Kevin Whitehurst, Senior Vice President, Skilled Nursing Solutions, MatrixCare

This article is sponsored by MatrixCare. In this Voices interview, Skilled Nursing News sits down with MatrixCare Senior Vice President of Skilled Nursing Solutions Kevin Whitehurst to learn the new challenges for skilled nursing providers in 2021, the emerging technologies that will help SNFs overcome those challenges and top strategies for boosting occupancy. Skilled Nursing […]

Skilled Nursing Operators Can Find Success Under the ‘Quite Similar’ PDPM and I-SNP Models

The Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) overhauled the way skilled nursing facilities are paid for their services to Medicare fee-for-service patients when it took effect last year – removing therapy as a driver of reimbursement and putting an emphasis on patient conditions. That gives it more than a passing resemblance to a lightning rod in the […]

ResMed Acquires MatrixCare for $750M, Expanding Into Long-Term Care

ResMed (NYSE: RMD, ASX: RMD) announced Monday that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire post-acute software provider MatrixCare for $750 million. “We were looking for another great addition to add a third leg, if you like, to the stool of our out-of-hospital software investments, and MatrixCare just came straight to the top,” ResMed CEO Mick […]