Post-Acute

A recent press release by LHC Group has been named number 4 on the Forbes list of "America's Best-in-State Employers 2019". 

A recent article by TeamHealth dives into how hospitals and health systems can prepare for trauma-informed care. 

CMS fined a Buffalo, N.Y.-based nursing home $47,827 after staff members improperly administered insulin to a patient, reports The Buffalo News.

Nearly 400 nursing homes nationwide have a "persistent record of poor care" previously undisclosed to the public, according to a Senate report released June 3.

Medicare patients who seek surgical care in hospital outpatient departments are more likely to have severe chronic conditions and be poorer than beneficiaries treated in ambulatory surgical centers, according to a study from the American Hospital Association.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is expanding its home healthcare options to offer primary care, palliative care and other hospital services, the health system announced March 11.

Hundreds of nursing homes in rural America have closed in the last decade, forcing some residents to relocate to facilities farther away from their families and homes, reports The New York Times.

A survey of Colorado home healthcare clinicians found major gaps in communication between hospitals and home healthcare staff, including some that could lead to significant medical consequences, researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.

Several residents at Lakewood, N.J.-based Fountain View Care Center were treated for scabies this month, according to NJ.com.

Minnesota Sen. Karin Housley, R-39th district, is pushing a bill that would allow cameras in patient rooms at nursing homes and other care facilities, reports Fox 9.