Assisted living providers received a major regulatory blow from the Arizona Legislature this week after it passed an overhaul on best practices, training requirements and penalties for delinquent facilities. And hospitals net a win as a bill championed by the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association (AzHHA) moves out of the Senate...
Arizona's healthcare regulatory boards are under scrutiny following an ABC15 investigation that led to a bill's amendment.
At a House Health Committee meeting in February, Representative Selena Bliss (R-Prescott) told fellow legislators that she introduced HB 2686 in order to increase transparency from Arizona's health boards and...
The staffing shortage in nursing homes predated the COVID-19 health emergency, but has been exacerbated by the pandemic to an alarming degree. The American Health Care Association (AHCA) has said that the vast majority of nursing homes do not meet existing federal staffing minimums and these levels are having dangerous outcomes for...
The winter surge of COVID-19 has hit Arizona. Cases are on the rise with seniors hit especially hard. In Arizona, the influx of cases in tandem with the high volume of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases has some Arizona officials urging masking in public places and the resumption of mitigating practices.
There were 12,987 new...
Providers are grappling with how to provide care for a virus with a myriad of uncertainties still looming. Several states are moving to protect healthcare facilities from lawsuits related to coronavirus care, including Arizona.
The coronavirus is wreaking havoc on long-term care facilities where vulnerable populations live in...National News
This closing includes 12 skilled nursing facilities and four assisted living facilities. Sale proceeds from the closing were approximately $108 million.
In addition, the company has completed the sale to BlueMountain and affiliated buyers of 66 skilled nursing facilities and four assisted living facilities for aggregate proceeds of...
