Post-Acute

The American Hospital Association has expressed its support for a proposed House bill to revise reimbursement rates for long-term care hospitals.  The Securing Access to Care for Seniors in Critical Condition Act of 2025 aims to establish new criteria allowing…

Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care has agreed to sell the Baptist Memorial Restorative Care Hospital, a long-term acute care facility, to Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based Select Medical Corp. The facility will be renamed Select Specialty Hospital – Memphis East after the…

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine in March appointed Kristina Newport, MD, as chief medical officer for the organization.  Dr. Newport currently serves as chief of palliative care for Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health. She recently spoke with…

Texas has the most communities on the “2025 Best Senior Living” list published April 15 by U.S. News & World Report. The District of Columbia and North Dakota had the highest percentage of best-rated communities out of each state’s total…

In March, Renton, Wash.-based Providence launched the first phase of its home-based care partnership with Brentwood, Tenn.-based Compassus. The joint venture, called Providence at Home with Compassus, will become operational in Alaska, Washington and Texas on May 1. The organizations…

Researchers from Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham have identified 17 modifiable risk factors linked to stroke, dementia and late-life depression, according to a study published April 3 in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Here are five things to…

Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health will partner on a joint venture with skilled nursing facility management company Ahava Healthcare at four of the health system’s long-term care and assisted living facilities. Ballad Health will continue to participate in governance of…

Home health and personal care aides in Washington state earn the highest annual and hourly mean wage before adjusting for the state’s cost of living index, according to data published April 2 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Adjusted for…

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for Northern Texas has vacated a yet-to-be-imposed nursing home staffing level mandate approved during the Biden administration.  The judge’s ruling encompasses two separate but consolidated lawsuits: one filed by the American Health…

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…