Wisconsin officials have pledged to provide nursing homes additional funding if they take in hospital inpatients during the coronavirus crisis in an effort to alleviate hospitals at or near full capacity.
Multiple local and state health officials are leveraging strike teams to help nursing home providers fighting coronavirus outbreaks in their facilities. The strategy is proven to be helpful for many states and operators, a New York Times report detailed.
Nursing homes in Eau Claire and Dallas, WI, announced this week that they were closing, with both blaming inadequate Medicaid reimbursements for the decision to move 77 combined residents.
Psychiatrists, marketer pushed patients to home health company for kickbacks, feds say … More Wisconsin nursing homes closing due to low reimbursement, advocates say … Families of skilled nursing residents less satisfied with hospice than those with in-home service
It pains me to say it, but Minnesota’s done it again.
GOP and Democratic strategists were watching the Wisconsin governorship recall race earlier this week as a possible harbinger of this fall’s presidential election. But that’s a shortsighted view.
Amid the flurry of bad news for long-term care providers, regarding Medicaid cuts, a spot of sunshine appeared in Alabama on Wednesday, when the governor said he would veto the state’s budget if an additional $200 million were not added to the program.
Healthcare facilities should shut down indoor decorative fountains to avoid the spread of Legionnaire’s disease, according to a new study.
A new law in Wisconsin gives nursing homes more time to pay penalties for citations and prevents facilities from getting multiple citations for the same violation.
