The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services temporary nurse aide waiver will come to an end early next month, leaving nursing homes just four months from the June 7 date to get thousands of temporary workers trained and certified — or risk losing them. TNAs hired after June 7 will have four months from their […]
With data suggesting that more than 400 nursing homes could close in 2022 and pandemic-related federal funding coming to an end, SNFs are increasingly having to find ways to solidify their role in the post-acute care continuum moving forward. For nursing home leaders, this means identifying what types of investments will move the needle forward […]
Optum, the health services arm of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), has agreed to buy home health giant LHC Group (Nasdaq: LHCG) for a reported $5.4 billion. The blockbuster deal is the latest indication that the nation’s largest health care payers are driving a shift toward value-based care models that prioritize more services delivered in people’s […]
As state and federal policymakers clamor to set nursing home minimum staffing standards – most recently in the Biden administration’s expansive reform proposals – leaders in the space are asking a pointed question: Why now? The industry has already lost nearly 238,000 caregivers in the last two years – an issue that has only been […]
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) vaccine mandate deadline looms this week, nursing homes across the country have stepped up to get their staff vaccinated in time – while still lagging on booster numbers. Nearly 85% of nursing home staff per facility are vaccinated, according to CMS data, and 87.3% of residents […]
Norcross, Ga.-based nursing home operator PruittHealth has taken a $260 million revenue hit since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 – but saw a 19% boom in demand for its home health services. That’s according to a new report released last week, which also highlighted an estimated $102.1 million in Medicaid […]
Nursing home occupancy recovery rates will be market and operator specific in 2022 and beyond, with COVID-19 still steering industry expectations and resident choices. Still, more than half of nursing home industry leaders believe occupancy levels will improve in the next 12 months for both long-term and short-term care – 53.6% and 52.8%, respectively, according […]
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 […]
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 PruittHealth makes progress on its goal of adding more private rooms to its facilities over the next five years, the operator plans to launch its own SNF-at-home type of service, dubbed PruittHealth Family First, in its home state of Georgia later this year. Starting as a 10-county pilot program, the family-owned operator with more […]
Nursing homes have long been seen as the place where elderly Medicare and Medicaid patients spend their final years, but as these institutions look to evolve post-COVID, their role in the long-term care continuum continues to expand. Over the course of the year, SNN has seen operators open in-house dialysis units, renovate their facilities for […]
Following the Biden administration’s announcement that all nursing home staff must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or risk losing Medicare and Medicaid funding, operators and senior living organization leaders fear singling out one group of health care workers will only exacerbate a continued staffing crisis. Some state mandates, on the other hand, call on all health […]
Georgia-based operators PruittHealth, Community Health Services of Georgia (CHSGa) and A.G. Rhodes on Monday announced all employees across the three companies will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine as a term of employment. Low vaccination rates are the “primary reason” behind the continued spread of COVID-19, the companies said in a statement; medical and […]
National Healthcare Corp. looks to further diversify its service lines within the care continuum, this month acquiring outstanding stakes in hospice and palliative care system Caris Healthcare for $38.95 million. NHC deals primarily in skilled nursing facilities, with its affiliates operating 75 SNFs, followed by 35 home health agencies, 28 hospice agencies, 24 assisted living […]
Skilled nursing facility operators and others in the senior care industry with diversified service lines are in a better position to care for residents at this point in the pandemic — and in the future. Operators with a diverse payer mix also have an edge, long-term care experts told Skilled Nursing News. Broadly, operators have […]
Nursing home operators have lamented for years how difficult it is to address infrastructure problems in their facilities. In some locations and under some circumstances, they’ve been able to make changes over time. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, means that such changes are not optional if operators want to survive – and they cannot be incremental. […]
Just like with COVID-19 infection, no one was immune when it came to senior housing operators and the subsequent financial challenges created by the pandemic. It affected every community type – all sizes, all business models— including skilled nursing. All have been struggling with occupancy. Recent numbers from CliftonLarsonAllen show that as of January 2021, […]
The pandemic has accelerated a shift to private rooms in the skilled nursing space, an attempt to help curb infection, with 31 percent of operators making the change in some capacity last year. Chicago-based speciality investment bank Ziegler reported the statistic during a CFO workshop in April — research also showed 47 percent of operators […]
Lifesprk, a senior care company providing services that span the home-based care continuum, is acquiring Tealwood Senior Living, which operates 35 communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The transaction is focused primarily on senior living, but three of Tealwood’s locations offer skilled nursing services – and the acquisition by Lifesprk might provide some insights into how […]
The COVID-19 emergency overturned nursing home operations overnight in almost every respect, notably with regard to the provision of clinical care. And according to a panel of physicians who work in the nursing home setting, some of those changes should stick around, even after the public health emergency finally comes to a close. Namely, they […]
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