Post-Acute

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,”…

Hawaii is the most prepared state to address the healthcare needs of the U.S.’s aging population, while Oregon is the least, according to an analysis by Seniorly and CareScout.  Seniorly examined each state across three dimensions — population trends, financial…

Cleveland Clinic and Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based Select Medical have opened a fourth rehabilitation hospital.  The Cleveland Clinic Rehabilitation Hospital Fairhill will begin admitting patients later this month, according to an Oct. 10 news release from Cleveland Clinic.  Cleveland Clinic and Select…