As colder temperatures bring flu season and the likelihood of higher Covid cases, the nation’s most frail population — and the workers that care for them — can only benefit from a fall Covid booster campaign, researchers say. Federal dollars to pay for a campaign, however, have dwindled. A recent study conducted by the Commonwealth […]
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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 […]
Nursing homes and continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) will ultimately experience an increase in expenditures from $174.2 billion in 2019 to $273 billion in 2030 – a fluctuation along that timeline reflects a drop in federal financial support and eventual moderation compared to what the industry received during the height of the pandemic in 2020. […]