Kindred Healthcare announced Thursday that it has chosen a new top executive to lead its push toward creating a mammoth national brand. Benjamin A. Breier, the company’s current president and COO,...
Kindred Healthcare has succeeded in its quest to acquire Gentiva Health Services. The companies announced Thursday morning they would combine to create the fourth-biggest healthcare provider of any type...
Kindred will trim more SNFs from its portfolio, Diaz says
By
McKnight's Staff
Apr 01, 2013
Kindred Healthcare will continue to offload its nursing facility operations leased from Ventas, according to President and CEO Paul J. Diaz.
Kindred Healthcare steps up its transition game
By
McKnight's Staff
Nov 14, 2012
Kindred Healthcare has announced plans to open new transitional care centers in Indianapolis and Las Vegas by 2014. The company will also open expanded transitional care hospitals in Dayton, OH, and Charleston,...
Let’s hope they don’t give war a chance
By
John O'Connor
Jul 30, 2012
Many long-term care insiders are starting to wonder if sequestration might not be so bad after all. That’s because a provision in the sequestration law caps Medicare funding cuts at 2%. All things...
Kindred executive urges Senate to test payment reforms, put off Medicare cuts
By
McKnight's Staff
May 24, 2012
A top nursing home industry executive made a case against Medicare cuts and in favor of payment and delivery reforms in long-term and post-acute care in a Senate hearing Wednesday.
S&P downgrades nursing home ratings; SNFs lose jobs
Aug 09, 2011
Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has put all six of its rated for-profit nursing home operators on Credit Watch with a negative outlook.