One of the nursing home industry’s largest trade groups, LeadingAge, received a $1 million grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation on Tuesday with the aim of furthering some of the recommendations laid out in the recently released National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report. The report – dubbed The National Imperative to […]
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Following the tough lessons learned during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing home operators are finding ways to ensure they are never caught off guard again. Improving nursing home preparedness has not only been on the mind of operators but government officials and industry experts as well when it comes to discussing reform […]
The way care is financed, delivered and regulated in the nursing home sector is both ineffective and inefficient, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found, as significant strategic investment will be needed to improve what has become a fragmented and unsustainable system. The wide ranging report called for swift […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) begins the summer with a new administrator, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. Soon, the skilled nursing industry will begin to see how this new agency leader — who has a history with CMS and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — will shape nursing home policy and regulation. […]