Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Large hospital operators reported increasing lengths of stay and difficulties discharging patients in the first half of 2022. The answer to why lies in a perennially stressed post-acute care chassis driven to the brink by COVID-19.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In over half of states, less than a quarter of nursing facilities would meet staffing requirements under a proposed federal rule, according to a new KFF analysis.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The gains are slightly above last year’s average for the sector, which was 47,000 new jobs per month.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 26, 2024

Facilities reported challenges hiring and retaining qualified infection prevention personnel, according to the analysis by the HHS’ Office of Inspector General.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2020

Primary topic: Government & Policy Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: VA healthcare slated for modernization; COVID-19 testing required for nursing home staffs Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 23, 2024

The rule places more stringent staffing requirements on nursing homes than those initially proposed and offers exemptions for certain providers. Still, interest groups on all sides slammed the rule, calling it either too stringent or lax.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 28, 2022

A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial. The trial took place in 2019. .”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

A unique remote monitoring system, developed at MIT and deployed in some hospitals and long-term care settings, is now showing further promise for advanced assessment of potential COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes and other congregate care communities, according to researchers at the school's CSAIL institute. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Modern Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the first time, the federal government aims to impose staffing minimums at nursing homes, an estimated 75% of which would need to hire more nurses.

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“We are pulling back the curtain and letting the sunshine in on hospital and nursing home ownership because it is what the public deserves,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said Tuesday in a statement.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 23, 2024

Medicaid managed care plans and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will be subject to new wait time standards and quality ratings requirements, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid S | CMS defended implementing stronger rules over nursing home staffing as well as explained its thoughts behind Medicaid access and managed care rules.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 18, 2023

One place where aging adults are likely to experience elder abuse occurs in long-term care (LTC) environments; this has been described as a “public health concern” in relation to the nursing home setting. In 2020, 15,000 complaints of abuse and neglect in nursing homes were reported to states’ ombudsmen across the U.S.,

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2021

Majority of nursing homes missing broad safety, quality inspections due to the pandemic. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 08/02/2021 - 14:02.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The now chronic problem of more expensive agency staff and potentially lower quality care in nursing homes needs to be addressed as part of calls for increased oversight of the sector, according to | The now chronic problem of more expensive agency staff and potentially lower quality care in nursing homes needs to be addressed as part of calls for (..)

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

My commitment to this work has led me to build innovative programs both in the community and in skilled nursing facilities, designed to provide more and better-focused care to our frail elderly. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data 1 , the number of workers employed at nursing care facilities nationwide has declined by 15%—from 1.59

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Louisiana revokes licenses from 7 nursing homes after Ida evacuation failures cost lives. Wed, 09/08/2021 - 12:27.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

The Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to enable more widespread use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities. WHY IT MATTERS. The RUSH Act – introduced in companion bills from Sens.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 1, 2022

Nursing homes care for the elderly, people with disabilities, or those who are terminally ill. However, abuse can take many different forms in nursing homes and can devastatingly impact the residents. Implementing some steps can help protect the residents of nursing homes from abuse. Physical Abuse.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Thousands of nursing home and hospital patients have been moved to other facilities as recovery efforts continued Sunday.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 28, 2022

With nurses in high demand, hospitals and nursing homes are forced to accept "exorbitant" rates set by staffing agencies, their lobbies argue.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 14, 2022

Hospitals forced to delay patient discharges as nursing homes and rehab centers face major staff shortages. Fri, 01/14/2022 - 16:07.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Report: Nursing homes shed 221K jobs since start of pandemic while other sectors have recovered. Wed, 11/10/2021 - 16:20.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 6, 2023

Joel Landau, founder and chairman of The Allure Group Nursing homes have embraced technology, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, to help seniors, staff, and clinicians better communicate with one another and for residents to stay in touch with loved ones. Nursing homes are evolving.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Private-equity-acquired nursing homes have worse resident outcomes, higher Medicare costs, study finds. Tue, 11/23/2021 - 15:53.

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C&M Health Law

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a much anticipated and contested proposed rule that seeks to establish minimum staffing level requirements for nursing homes. hours of nursing staff per resident per day, or 3.0 HPRD from nurse aids (NAs). [2]

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 19, 2021

Nursing home groups decry mandate push by CMS for staff to get COVID-19 vaccine. Thu, 08/19/2021 - 16:27.

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Healthicity

MARCH 3, 2022

Emergency Preparedness for Nursing Homes.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 28, 2022

Medicare patients win the right to appeal gap in nursing home coverage. Fri, 01/28/2022 - 10:59.

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Modern Healthcare

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published a proposed rule that aims to promote transparency in the often opaque realm of nursing home ownership.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In 2023, nursing homes have seen increased citations by surveyors for noncompliance tied to their pre-dispute, binding agreements for binding arbitration with their residents. The Arbitration Regulations revised the requirements for arbitration agreements when they are used by nursing homes to resolve disputes with their residents.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 6, 2021

Receiving IV therapy is one of the reasons many seniors and adults take advantage of nursing homes such as Fairview Rehab and Nursing Home in Queens NY. The article Receiving IV Therapy and Antibiotics In A Nursing Facility appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 11, 2023

Fitch Ratings: Workforce pressures easing for hospitals, ambulatory care, nursing homes dmuoio Tue, 04/11/2023 - 12:40

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 12, 2024

A new trial is ongoing at the SASCO Senior Citizens' Home while another pilot is slated at St. Andrew's Nursing Home. Since it was built in 2020 at NYP's Centre for Innovation for Electronics and Internet of Things, it has been piloted at Singapore General Hospital and St. Luke's ElderCare Rivervale Centre.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Aiming to improve the accessibility, affordability and experience of care in underserved communities, the programme extends support services to partner small hospitals and nursing homes, including eICU, diagnostics, surgical consultations, remote monitoring, clinical and quality training, and accreditation support.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a rule that will require more transparency into nursing home ownership. | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized a rule that will require more transparency into nursing home ownership.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 23, 2020

The tool is able to track who a patient or staff member came into contact with and where they traveled in the facility.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2020

"The FCC COVID-19 Telehealth Program will enable Parker to reduce patient face-to-face encounters in the nursing home and the possible impact of COVID-19, reduce PPE, and minimize staff burden." " Lorraine Breuer, Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation. ” MARKETPLACE.

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