Josh Legum, co-founder of Monarch Healthcare Management and its current CEO, will become president effective January 3, 2022, as the company expands its upper-level management team.
Long-term care needs your help!
By
John Sauer
Rick Abrams
Jun 11, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has tested our nation. For long-term care providers, including nursing facilities and assisted living centers, the pandemic has exacerbated our chronic challenges of a severe caregiver...
Two more Wisconsin nursing homes closing, both citing Medicaid reimbursement problems
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 28, 2018
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.
Also in the News for Tuesday, Feb. 13
Feb 13, 2018
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...
Nursing homes demonstrate health information exchange, Minnesota style
By
Tim Mullaney
Apr 01, 2014
It pains me to say it, but Minnesota’s done it again.
Voters give providers something to worry about
By
John O'Connor
Jun 08, 2012
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...
Funding rarity: Alabama governor demands more for Medicaid
By
McKnight's Staff
May 03, 2012
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...
Healthcare facilities advised to shut down decorative fountains following Legionnaires’ disease...
Jan 10, 2012
Healthcare facilities should shut down indoor decorative fountains to avoid the spread of Legionnaire’s disease, according to a new study.
New law gives break to Wisconsin nursing homes
Nov 21, 2011
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.