St. Louis-based Ascension will open a $30 million inpatient rehabilitation facility on its Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola (Fla.) medical campus, according to an Oct. 4 Pensacola News Journal report.
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A federal judge has thrown out a COVID-19-related wrongful death lawsuit against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, CBS affiliate WRGB reported Sept. 30.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has denied the sale of three nonprofit SSM Health nursing facilities to a New Jersey-based for-profit company, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Sept. 27.
Chelsea (Mich.) Hospital, jointly owned and operated by Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health and Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine, has opened its new adult inpatient rehabilitation unit.
Only 4% of California and Connecticut nursing homes are experiencing staffing shortages, compared to 80% in Alaska, according to findings published April 12 by Seniorly.
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CMS has issued a memo reminding nursing homes to facilitate their residents' right to vote. Guidance for nursing home administrators is included in the memo.
CMS analyzes rehabilitation hospital data to calculate the facility's Medicare spending per beneficiary score.
More than one-third of nursing homes in the U.S. had no medical director presence in the first quarter of 2023, according to a study published Sept. 2 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
The Hevolution Foundation, which funds research in health span science, recently awarded Northwestern University $32.4 million over five years to study healthy aging.
The older adult population is expected to reach 82.1 million by 2050, yet less than 1% of physicians specialize in their care, according to a recent study of Americans over the age of 65.