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In April 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the testing of a risk-based survey (RBS) that streamlines the standard recertification process for high-performing nursing homes....

Social isolation typically isn’t healthy for older adults, but those who were more isolated actually fared better than their socially connected peers when the pandemic forced the world into lockdown,...

Certain social determinants of health are linked to emergency department visits in older adults who have two or more chronic conditions, a new study finds. The authors called for interventions to affect...

Upcoming changes to Five-Star rating methodology will require long-term care providers to overhaul several key daily processes related to staffing and quality measure reporting, an informatics specialist...

Skilled nursing providers will not have to go through a stand-alone application process to be exempted from provisions of a new federal staffing mandate, an official with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...

Tragicomically, CMS asserts “this final rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities[.]” 

Despite minor concessions in a staffing mandate issued Monday, many nursing home providers were shell-shocked by what they saw as federal regulators’ intractable stance on minimums at a time when nearly...

A research survey of 175 post-acute care administrators and 220 caregivers

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it would exempt nursing homes from having registered nurse coverage for up to 8 out of 24 hours a day “under certain circumstances,” unveiling...

Auditors are paying special attention to isolation and quarantine coding amid already heightened Medicare nursing home audits that are expected to increase in coming months, experts warn.