Profile: Susan Hildebrandt
When Susan Hildebrandt discusses the challenges facing many working parents in the long-term care workforce, empathy comes up a lot.
Print Issue: June 01, 2017
SNF aides rated among the unhealthiest eaters in U.S.
Nurses and doctors may be the healthiest workers in the U.S. labor force. But no field other than firefighters and law enforcement has worse health and eating habits than healthcare aides, 40% of whom are nursing home caregivers.
Ask The Payment Expert: Patricia Boyer
Can you clear up confusion over quality measures and how long people remain on the report?
Suit filed over false background checks
An Indiana-based healthcare management group has been hit with a class-action lawsuit after one job applicant claimed she was denied a position at the company based on an allegedly false background check report.
ACOs cut costs, not quality
Post-acute care spending dropped by 9% — or about $106 per beneficiary — without a drop in quality, a study of accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program has found.
Workers fired before union vote to be reinstated: NLRB
Employees who were terminated from a California skilled nursing facility one week ahead of a union election must be reinstated and compensated for back pay, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled in late April.
Court: Medicaid may collect SNF room-and-board outlays
In a ruling that could create ripple effects on state Medicaid programs around the country, Nebraska’s highest court decreed that the state may pursue payment from beneficiaries for room-and-board costs for skilled nursing stays.
Ask the Legal Expert about … wage and overtime laws
Because this is an ongoing issue for us, could you re-emphasize how we can insulate ourselves from problems if we have diligent workers who might keep working “off the clock?”
60 Seconds with… Steve Carr, Centers Health Care Chief sales officer
Q: As someone who has worked with several health systems and ACOs. What do you find is skilled nursing facilities’ best appeal to hospitals?
