Idaho-based Advanced Health Care of Coeur d’Alene had the lowest risk-standardized rate of potentially preventable hospital readmissions 30 days after discharge between Oct. 1, 2021, and Sept. 30, 2023, according to CMS data published March 26. The national average rate…
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The largest healthcare workers union in Connecticut has issued a petition drive among its members to decide whether to call a formal strike for the more than 6,000 nursing home employees working under expired contracts. The drive serves as a…
Twenty long-term acute care and nine rehabilitation hospitals have been deemed Centers of Excellence by the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality, according to information shared with Becker’s. The CIHQ was established in 1999 and offers accreditation programs for acute…
Maryland-based nonprofit Superior Living Foundation has acquired 14 skilled nursing facilities in East Texas valued at $250.2 million. The transaction was finalized March 11, according to a March 20 news release from the organization. The seller will continue to operate…
NYC Health + Hospitals has appointed Daveth Forbes-Thomas, RN, MSN, as chief executive officer of the NYC Health + Hospitals/McKinney nursing home. Ms. Forbes-Thomas has been with McKinney for about six years, having previously served as deputy executive director, director…
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new bill into law that enhances retaliation protections for nursing home residents, Fox 32 Chicago reported March 25. Under the new law, facilities must notify residents of their rights and how to make complaints…
Nearly two dozen county-owned hospitals in Indiana have used a legal loophole to reroute billions in supplemental Medicaid funds from nursing homes to hospital projects, according to a March 18 investigative report from IndyStar. The IndyStar has been investigating the…
Houston Methodist is streamlining its post-acute strategy by adding extensivists to discharges and making changes to its insurance approach. The system initially used extensivists in home discharges, and after success in that program, it is expanding their assignments to post-acute…
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Nursing and residential facilities added 13,200 jobs in January, according to a March 4 Altarum report.