CMS Makes Additional Nursing Home Staffing Data Public: The public availability of staff turnover data and weekend staffing rates may prompt staffing policy changes that help in thwarting nursing home abuse and preventing nursing home neglect. In addition to data...
New Jersey limits nursing home profits to boost quality of care; New York and Massachusetts are also implementing accountability measures. New Jersey is one of three states to set requirements on how nursing homes spend the payments they receive from government...
Plummeting Nursing Home Occupancy Rates Raise Quality of Care Questions The pandemic sent the median occupancy rate in American nursing homes plummeting, and with no return to pre-pandemic rates in sight, experts fear resident care will suffer, says an AARP article....
Claims Could Follow the Resumption of Nursing Home Visitation A recent guidance provided by federal regulators will allow family members to resume indoor nursing home visitation with their loved ones “at all times,” according to AP News. The resumption of visitation...
New Nursing Home Coronavirus Cases Reach Their Lowest Numbers since Data Tracking Began: Deaths in Nursing Homes Drop 80 Percent Following Vaccines Following the rollout of vaccines to American long-term care facilities that began late last year, new COVID cases and...
There is a COVID-19 nursing home crisis. In August advocates for Pennsylvania nursing home residents released a report that proposed immediate reforms the state might make to address those shortcomings that rendered PA long-term care facilities so vulnerable during...
