Post-Acute

The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living recognized a record number of facilities with the 2026 Silver-Achievement in Quality Award. The award — which is celebrating its 30th year — recognizes long-term care organizations that meet…

In 2023, Rhode Island had the highest percentage of skilled nursing facility residents on Medicare with one of six cancer types, according to CMS data. Rhode Island’s measure of Medicare beneficiaries with cancer residing in a skilled nursing facility in…

Lynchburg, Va.-based Centra Health has opened Centra Rehabilitation Hospital on the Simons Run Medical Campus. The 50-bed hospital, developed through a joint venture with Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Rehabilitation that was announced in 2022, expands Centra’s rehabilitation capacity by 150%, according…

Allen, Texas-based Nobis Rehabilitation Partners named Cleve Haralson chief administrative officer. In this role, Mr. Haralson will oversee administrative and operational excellence across the organization, strengthen strategic partnerships, support growth of inpatient medical rehab, and work with the CEO to…

The nursing home workforce gained 3,300 jobs in June, bringing the total number of workers up to 1,586,600, the American Health Care Association said in a July 6 news release shared with Becker’s. The association used the Bureau of Labor…

The Supreme Court has ended protections for Haitian and Syrian citizens, clearing the way for the federal government to deport hundreds of thousands of workers. It’s a move that could shake the skilled nursing workforce. Here is what to know.…

Fewer than 1 in 4 patients with stroke and 1 in 7 patients with traumatic brain injury are discharged from the hospital to an inpatient rehabilitation facility, a recent study found. The study, published June 10 in Neurology, analyzed 444,908…

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals’ Housing for Health initiative has launched a pilot program that places home health aides with medically vulnerable patients during the critical gap between housing move-in and Medicaid approval — a window that typically…

Cleveland, Wis.-based ClearSky Rehabilitation Hospital Lakeshore named Brittani Coffey, MSN, RN, CEO. “I’m honored to lead ClearSky Lakeshore and work alongside a team dedicated to changing lives through specialized rehabilitative care,” Ms. Coffey said in a June 25 hospital news…

So far in 2026, CMS has handed out 55,981 deficiencies to skilled nursing facilities across the nation. Becker’s collected a report on all of the deficiencies given by CMS in 2026 at freestanding and hospital-based facilities. This includes dually certified,…