Post-Acute

Jamesville, N.Y.-based Iroquois Nursing Home has been cited for a severe safety violation after a 78-year-old patient jumped out a window on the facility's second floor, reports The Post-Standard.

Eight of nine senior managers at New Jersey's state-run veterans nursing homes made too much money to qualify for COVID-19 hazard pay, but received it anyway, according to records cited by The Wall Street Journal.

The ex-manager of Darby, Pa.-based St. Francis Center for Rehabilitation & Health Care has pleaded no contest to recklessly endangering three residents who died after the facility cut staffing, according to a June 3 release from Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh…

The average price per bed in a nursing home was $88,600 in 2020, marking a 22 percent increase from 2019, according to annual survey findings published May 26. 

Under a new law signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, information about communicable diseases spreading inside long-term care facilities and nursing homes is no longer considered "protected health information," local ABC affiliate KVUE reported May 24. 

Atlanta-based SavaSeniorCare will pay $11.2 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by pressuring its skilled nursing facilities to bill Medicare for rehabilitation therapy services that were unnecessary, the U.S. Department of Justice announced May 21. 

Unvaccinated residents who live in nursing homes where others have been vaccinated against COVID-19 have a low risk of contracting the virus, a research letter published May 19 in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests. 

Below are nursing homes linked to the most COVID-19 cases since March 2020, The New York Times reported.

The Joint Commission has collected data on compliance with standards, National Patient Safety Goals, and Accreditation and Certification Participation Requirements to identify trends surrounding challenging requirements.

Nationwide, 23 percent of certified nursing facilities received a deficiency for actual harm or jeopardy in 2019, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.