As patient preference continues to shift away from nursing homes, public attention is increasingly on alternate modes of skilled nursing care as well, including continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs). Newsweek, for one, came out with a ranking of such communities in partnership with global market and consumer data firm Statista. The companies expect rankings to […]
Newsweek
As the nursing home industry continues to recover from the last several years of the pandemic, annual inspections have fallen by the wayside. According to federal data from mid-February, about 4,500 of the nation’s 15,000 nursing homes were overdue for an inspection. More than 1,500 of those facilities were last inspected before the public health […]
The U.S. regulatory process for skilled nursing facilities needs to be overhauled to focus on outcomes, Seema Verma, the outgoing administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), argued in an opinion piece published January 8. “Despite nursing homes receiving infection control guidance, government-funded testing, training, supplies, staffing, and over $7 billion in […]
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