January 29, 2025 BHR Newsletter 1. 4 post-acute, long-term care leaders honored Full story 2. National care quality rates of long-term care, rehab, skilled nursing facilities Full story 3. Home health company owner gets prison for $100M fraud scheme Full…
Post-Acute Report
January 22, 2025 BHR Newsletter 1. Athena Health to close 2 nursing homes, cut 250 jobs Full story 2. Mercy, Humana partner on older adult care clinics Full story 3. A glaring contributor to older adult hospital readmissions: Study Full…
January 15, 2025 BHR Newsletter 1. CMS earmarks $20M for RNs to tackle nursing home staffing shortage Full story 2. Dementia to double by 2060: 4 study notes Full story 3. Nurse, CNA charged in West Virginia patient's death Full…
January 8, 2025 BHR Newsletter 1. 1st update to Alzheimer's diagnostic guidelines since 2001 Full story 2. 18 SNF staff charged after patient's death Full story 3. Joint Commission revises workplace violence criteria Full story 4. Pharmacy — your health…
December 18, 2024 BHR Newsletter 1. Louisiana long-term acute care hospital to close Full story 2. CMS launches campaign to support nursing home staffing rule Full story 3. Ascension to sell hospitals, post-acute facilities to Prime Healthcare Full story 4. Cut…
December 11, 2024 BHR Newsletter 1. 2023 hospice index scores, by state Full story 2. Care hours decline as deficiencies grow at US nursing homes: 6 notes Full story 3. How Kaiser Permanente quadrupled its hospital-at-home program Full story 4.…
December 4, 2024 BHR Newsletter 1. What Trump's presidency could mean for nursing home staffing Full story 2. Medicaid payments vs. nursing home costs: 5 takeaways Full story 3. HCA closes long-term acute care hospital in North Carolina Full story…
November 20, 2024 BHR Newsletter 1. CMS releases 'significant revisions' to nursing home survey guidance Full story 2. Valley Health's 'hospice in hospital' program expands to another hospital Full story 3. Home health owner sentenced to prison for fraud after…
November 13, 2024 BHR Newsletter 1. High-performing nursing homes, by state: US News Full story 2. Florida rehab hospital names new CEO Full story 3. NLRB files complaint against post-acute care network Full story 4. Health systems are struggling with…
November 6, 2024 BHR Newsletter 1. CMS nursing home ownership reporting: 5 things to know Full story 2. Encompass Health names 2 new rehab hospital CEOs Full story 3. Guardian Healthcare sells, transfers operations of nursing homes Full story 4.…