A Pennsylvania long-term care resident spent an early evening floating across the skies after facility leaders made her lifelong dream of riding a hot air balloon come true.
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Pennsylvania health officials should have first consulted with local long-term care stakeholders before enacting a new order that requires providers to meet an 80% staff COVID-19 vaccination goal by Oct. 1.
Nursing home workers at more than 50 Pennsylvania facilities are expected to receive “historic raises” after reaching a tentative contract agreement with their operators to avoid a planned strike.
The Department of Justice affirmed Thursday that it will not launch a civil rights investigation related to COVID-19 deaths in Michigan’s nursing homes. The news comes almost a year after the Justice Department sent fact-finding letters to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and governors of three other states led by Democrats, looking to determine whether certain…
An ownership group with links to COVID-era investigations and recent charges of inflating staffing reports is facing public criticism as it attempts to purchase five skilled nursing facilities in Vermont.
A call to increase minimum direct staffing hours 4.1 per patient, per day was roundly rejected as unrealistic by providers.
The countdown is on in Pennsylvania, where more than 1,500 nursing home employees at 21 facilities statewide have pledged to walk off the job on July 27 to protest staffing levels, wages and stalled contract talks. All of the affected nursing homes have labor agreements that expired June 30, except one in Philadelphia, said Karen…
Three Pennsylvania facilities will launch a pilot that resurrects and expands on the “teaching nursing home” model of care under a broad new partnership.
Medicaid reimbursements for Florida nursing homes would drop nearly $81 million next fiscal year in a new budget proposal, pitting state lawmakers against providers in a battle likely to take place in states across the U.S. in months ahead.
