After fighting COVID-19 in their facilities for 18 months, many nursing home operators were frustrated when they were informed in mid-August that a vaccine mandate would be coming into effect only for nursing home workers in the health care space. While that mandate has since been expanded to include all health care workers, the feeling […]
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Four members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill this week which aims to provide a financial boost to wages and benefits for long-term care workers. The Nursing Home Workforce Support and Expansion Act — which was introduced Tuesday by Reps. Steven Horsford of Nevada, Barbara Lee of California, Steve Cohen of Tennessee […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ regulation requiring staff vaccination for Medicare and Medicaid participating long-term care facilities is expected in late September, and officials say it is aimed at leveling the playing field. “We know that there have been concerns about staff leaving based on the vaccine requirement, and we believe that this […]
Just under 5% of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) confirmed new COVID-19 cases among their residents in the first week of August, analysis from the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) shows. Among those facilities with new cases, half had a staff vaccination rate below 49%, nearly 12% lower than the national average, […]
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 […]
The vast majority of skilled nursing and senior living operators, 84%, are currently tapping agency and temp staff to help with staffing shortages, according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care’s (NIC) most recent executive survey. Now in its 31st iteration since the COVID-19 pandemic began, responses were collected from 70 small, […]
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) are making another push for the federal government to release the remainder of the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) established by the CARES Act. This comes at the heels of the organization’s most recent survey, which revealed that only a quarter of nursing homes […]
Operator investment in talent, company culture and technology, along with a close eye on local markets, are key to survival at this stage of the pandemic. That’s with skilled nursing care becoming an increasingly localized, segmented industry, according to Bill Kauffman, senior principal with the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). Kauffman […]
Nursing home occupancy has increased for the third month in a row, according to a new analysis from the data service affiliated with the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). From March to April, the NICMAP Vision report recorded a jump of 94 basis points to end at 73.2% for April; that’s […]
Although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has backed off high-dollar civil monetary penalties (CMPs) in recent years, a trend that was heavily criticized by the AARP Foundation earlier this year, new research indicates that CMPs are picking back up. Fines collected through per-incident penalties increased more than eight-fold from 2016 to 2020 […]
Operators across the senior living spectrum are reporting that occupancy rates are starting to pick up, with skilled nursing facilities recovering the fastest. Staffing shortages, however, appear to be getting worse. That’s according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care’s (NIC) most recent survey of skilled nursing and senior living executives, now […]
Skilled nursing occupancy rose for two months in a row to close out Q1, ending March at 71.6%, according to a new analysis from the data service affiliated with the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). The NIC MAP Vision report drew from 29 contributors for March, representing 1,473 total SNF properties, […]
A new analysis of independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing facilities across dozens of counties in select states found that 39% of SNFs had no COVID-19-related deaths during 2020. The analysis was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago through a grant provided by the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing […]
Occupancy rates at many skilled nursing facilities are improving. The National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care (NIC) reported that occupancy at SNFs in its NIC Map Data Service report was 71.2% in February 2021, up from 70.7% in January. The report drew from 29 contributors representing a total of 1,454 properties in January […]
Even as the nationwide vaccine rollout eases the clinical crisis in U.S. nursing homes, operators across the senior living spectrum are reporting the highest levels of agency staffing use and overtime pay since the pandemic began — indicating that the longstanding workforce crunch in the sector only has only continued to worsen. That’s according to […]
While the skilled nursing landscape continues to struggle both operationally and financially during the COVID-19 pandemic, those same negative forces have only served to strengthen private health plans — putting Medicare Advantage in an even better position to continue its growth. Cratering census and sharp declines in elective surgeries, while fiscally devastating for nursing homes, […]
While emphasizing that the industry is much better prepared to weather a potential revival of large COVID-19 outbreaks in the fall and winter, a top nursing home leader on Tuesday called on operators to use the hard lessons learned during 2020 to improve from within. “You cannot ignore the fact that probably close to 100,000 […]
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to batter skilled nursing occupancy well into the month of June, according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care’s (NIC) Skilled Nursing Monthly Report, with census sinking to a new low even as the pace of decline slowed. In a blog post published September 10, NIC senior principal […]
More than half of the states in the country have rising COVID-19 case counts in nursing facilities, according to new same-store data compiled by the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). Utah led the way with an increase of 0.70 confirmed cases per nursing facility during the week of July 5 through […]
Occupancy at the nation’s skilled nursing facilities slid to 78.9% during the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in April, according to the most recent set of data from the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). That figure compares to 84.4% occupancy in April 2019, and 84.7% in February, before the novel […]
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