Skilled nursing’s employee turnover problem — long linked to issues with quality of care — is much worse than previously reported, according to a massive analysis published Monday.
The first academic study of its kind has found that the first three months of nursing homes’ overhauled Medicare payment system at the end of 2019 led to a distinct drop-off in the employed number of licensed therapists and therapy aides.
Increased state Medicaid reimbursement is necessary if providers ever hope to improve their financial and operational outlooks, a new analysis by advisory firm Marcum LLP suggests.
Some look at the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and question how they can make their buildings safer. Eric Tanner, CEO of transitional and skilled care specialist OnPointe, sees the crisis as a launching point for irrevocable, industry-wide change.
Skilled nursing facilities would be wise to keep its patients in their homes and out of the hospital completely. That’s why it was intriguing to hear of a new model for Medicare beneficiaries who reside in long-term care facilities.
“This is going to be the wave of the future.” If you happen to be a long-term care operator looking for words to live by, the above sentence is a pretty good choice.
The federal government wants a court to toss Kindred Healthcare’s attempt to collect $10.1 million in dual-eligible payments, according to legal filings reported this week.
Many industry experts believe skilled nursing’s current marketshare challenges are temporary — that SNFs only have to hang on until demographic shifts kick in. But I worry about this strategy.
I was all ready for my presentation on RCS-I, and then I literally lost power and had the run yanked out from under me at the same time.
If some operators are getting the PDPM tingly-dinglys, I’m experiencing something else: a sense of déjà vu.
