Margins squeezed by interest rates and inflation, staffing shortages amid a draconian staffing mandate proposal, an invasion of Medicare Advantage and mixed efforts at adapting to Minimum Data Set (MDS) changes are among a litany of the challenges facing the skilled nursing sector at the start of 2024. However, all is not doom and gloom […]
Marc Halpert has had a year under his belt as the CEO of Minnesota-based nursing home operator Monarch Healthcare Management, and is relishing his new role after having been on the operations side of the business for almost two decades. Amid the challenges of rapidly rising interest rates, staffing shortages and a tough economic environment, […]
The labor shortage has meant that workers in nursing homes have had to juggle various roles and chip in on a range of tasks, so much so that some providers have begun hiring people for this ability to cross over. “I think everybody in the community has to wear several hats and help out where […]
Activity coordinators in the skilled nursing space have had to get infinitely more creative in the face of pandemic precautions – and residents’ resulting depression and anxiety borne from isolation. People who fill the role must be “dynamic” in creating and executing resident programming and have the bandwidth to do more customized programs, according to […]
Staffing is unequivocally, and unsurprisingly, the top challenge for the skilled nursing industry in 2022. That’s according to the Skilled Nursing News 2022 outlook survey, conducted online late last year as a way to identify the top sources of concern and opportunities leaders saw in the year ahead. Labor challenges are not only widespread, but […]
As the omicron variant propelled some acute and post-acute settings into crisis standards of care during the latest COVID-19 surge, skilled nursing facilities are again asking themselves and their community hospitals how the two parts of the care continuum can collaborate. Nursing home operators have continued taking residents from hospitals for a more transitory timeframe […]
With the pandemic imposing the need for skilled nursing facilities to move away from institutional type settings, more SNF operators have taken a page from the hospitality industry — adding concierge-like services and hotel-style accommodations. Generations Healthcare, for instance, recently completed construction on a 116-bed nursing home in Temecula, Calif. – following the opening of […]
As nursing homes continue to face debilitating staffing shortages, Monarch Healthcare Management wants to be more proactive about how its facilities handle customer and employee engagement as it looks to grow in 2022. “The biggest thing is that we need some more operational help. In Minnesota we have 40 facilities and acquired another one over […]
As members of the National Guard are being sent to nursing homes across Minnesota and New York to help short-staffed facilities — for an industry that lost 8,400 last month and an estimated 234,000 jobs since the beginning of the pandemic — the deployment may have only bought facilities a little more time to figure […]
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced a new initiative Monday with the goal of recruiting, training and deploying at least 1,000 new CNAs by the end of January who will work in long-term care facilities experiencing staffing shortages. After calling on the National Guard to help nursing homes facing severe staffing shortages last month, the governor […]
Though fears of a massive staff exodus following the Biden’s administration vaccination mandate have likely been tempered with the recent inclusion of all health care providers, recruitment for nursing homes remains a challenge as the need for direct care workers in long-term care settings will nearly double in the next decade. “When I worked in […]
The Ensign Group (Nasdaq: ENSG) acquired the operations of the 99-bed Downey Care Center, a skilled nursing facility in Downey, Calif. The acquisition was effective March 1. “It’s been many years since we have found the right opportunity to grow in Southern California,” Ensign President and CEO Christopher Christensen said in a statement announcing the […]
Greystone Healthcare Management Announces New $30M Facility in Miami Greystone Healthcare Management announced the opening of a skilled nursing facility in Miami this fall. The center will feature various medical services and specialized orthopedic, cardiac, and stroke rehabilitation programs. Greystone, which manages 28 facilities in Florida, invested $30 million into the 150-bed Kendall Lakes Health and […]
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