Joe Bush

Bluegrass Christmas music is the calling card of a group of music students playing at nursing homes in Kentucky.

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Although nursing homes occupied a healthy portion of its final report, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis generally spared those providers at a hearing Wednesday.

A state-by-state comparison of pay-rate disparities between agency nurses and their full-time counterparts is feeding the fury that disgruntled long-term care operators and other providers have felt during the pandemic.

Nursing home advocates are doubling down on their push to get hospitals that discharge so many patients to skilled nursing facilities to vaccinate those they’re transfering.

A series of significant regulatory changes are expected to hit skilled nursing over the course of 2023, but experts are also warning providers not to lose sight of some smaller but still important changes coming into play as early as Jan. 1.

Potential pay cut relief that addresses some physician and therapist concerns is tucked into a 4,000-page proposed 2023 spending bill announced Monday by members of Congress.

A new search tool to help individuals find information when choosing a long-term care facility fails for the same reason as most of its predecessors, a top nursing home advocate said.

One key thing for facility operators to remember when planning to increase space, equipment and programming for seniors is to not call the target audience seniors.

Municipal or private, large or small, old or new, users of the tennis center or recreation, gym or aquatic center (or all three in one) want a place to shower, sit in a sauna, shave, change into athletic gear or at the least store coats and keys and purses and phones.