Post-Acute

CMS has repealed a core provision of its 2024 minimum staffing rule for long-term care facilities, citing recent federal court rulings and concerns over implementation. In an interim final rule published Dec. 2, the agency withdrew the requirement that long-term…

A recent uptick in the number of health systems formalizing post-acute partnerships with rehabilitation hospitals may reflect a shift toward a proactive approach to managing an aging patient population and navigating increased federal scrutiny of care transitions. Some of the…

White Plains, N.Y.-based Burke Rehabilitation Hospital has received a $10,000 pilot grant from the Foundation for Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, aimed at supporting rehabilitation services for individuals living with metastatic cancer.  The Tactile Medical Cancer Rehabilitation Research Award was presented…

California has the greatest number of high-performing nursing homes in the U.S., followed by Florida, according to U.S. News & World Report’s “2026 Best Nursing Homes” ratings, published Nov. 13. Hawaii has the highest rate of high-performing nursing homes, followed…

A group of healthcare societies has issued updated infection control guidance for nursing homes, marking the guideline’s first update in 17 years. The guidance was published Oct. 28 in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology and endorsed by the Society for…

ChristianaCare is planning a freestanding acute inpatient rehabilitation facility in Newark, Del., the Delaware Business Times reported Nov. 4. The $70 million joint venture with the Onix Group, a real estate developer, will be a 92,000-square-foot, three-story facility. It will…

New York City-based NYU Langone Health’s Rusk Rehabilitation has expanded its rehabilitative care collaboration with Centers Health Care. The collaboration, piloted five years ago, places a dedicated Rusk physician onsite at one of Centers Health Care’s nursing care facilities. The…

San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-based Ensign Group has acquired eight skilled nursing facilities in Utah and Alabama. The acquisitions have added 428 SNF beds to the group, according to a Nov. 3 news release. Here are the facilities: The Utah facilities…

Jackson-based Children’s of Mississippi has opened a new $15.9 million skilled nursing facility to offer long-term care to patients with complex medical conditions.  The Alyce G. Clarke Center for Medically Fragile Children features 20 beds and is situated less than…

Ann Arbor-based UMHealth has opened a cardiac rehabilitation center at University of Michigan Health-Sparrow Carson hospital in Carson City.  The center aims to improve the health of heart disease patients by providing a “medically supervised program of exercise and education,”…