In the midst of an ongoing staffing shortage, long-term care facilities are looking at new leadership, increased funding, and innovative policies to retain current workers.
In an interview with Skilled Nursing News, incoming president and CEO of the American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA) Bob Lane discussed a necessary...News
According to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nursing aides are the most likely to interact with long-term care residents but are the industry's least likely workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Concerning Statistics
CDC researchers looked at data from 300 U.S. facilities and found that...National News
On Tuesday, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), the nonpartisan commission advising the U.S. Congress on Medicare, advised the elimination of the value-based purchasing program, created in 2014 in order to improve quality of care for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). MedPAC says the standalone metric of hospital...National News
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a nightmare for nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). And while it has improved things dramatically, the vaccine has been far from a panacea for these facilities—and their employees, occupants, and occupants' family members.
COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes have slowed...National News
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission voted to recommend Congress create a new value incentive program to reward skilled nursing facilities for good performance. MedPAC also approved a recommendation for Congress to direct the Department of Health and Human Services to develop and begin to report patient experience measures for...
Since COVID-19 reached the United States in early 2020, nursing homes have been at the center of the story. As the vaccine alleviates the threat of the virus, skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes are looking for ways to fix the problems the pandemic exposed.
According to the latest data reported by Kaiser Family...
The national push to increase vaccine supply, get it out the door faster, increase the number medical units and locations add up to more shots. AARP wants Arizona to put up the vaccination data for residents and staff in long-term care facilities to ensure the most vulnerable are being prioritized in the state; race and ethnic...National News
As 75 million "Baby Boomers" age, the issues become larger and more difficult.
State and federal law require that serious cases of abuse in nursing homes be turned over to the police. More than one-quarter of serious cases of nursing home abuse are not reported to the police, according to an alert released Monday morning by the...
