Post-Acute

Indianapolis Rehabilitation Hospital named Logan Savage CEO.

Many nursing homes are closing due to financial strain, but changing service models from fee-for-service to value-based care could help improve their finances, Rajeev Kumar, MD, president of AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, told Becker's.

A Woburn, Mass.-based nursing home agreed to pay $4 million to settle allegations that it deliberately failed to properly staff its nursing homes.

Boulder, Colo.-based Frasier Retirement Community was given only 75 minutes notice before Xcel Energy cut its electrical service April 6 amid dry and windy wildfire conditions, KFF News reported June 10. Facility staff then had to continue care for 500…

St. Louis, Mo.-based Dover Health is expanding into the Chicagoland area with the acquisition of Joliet, Ill.-based Centered Care Hospice and Palliative Care, and Cornerstone Home Health.

Patients at Joint Commission-accredited long term acute hospitals get fewer catheter-associated urinary tract infections and fewer central line-associated bloodstream infections than those at nonaccredited ones, a study published in the June 2024 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and…

Atlanta-based LaVie Care Centers — one of the country's largest operators of skilled nursing facilities — has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Bloomberg reported June 3.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health deemed a nursing home in Scranton, Pa., "unsafe" May 31, leading to the relocation of about 85 residents, WVIA, a PBS News affiliate reported.

Nursing home closures in New England have outpaced closures in all other Medicaid regions, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston report.

Mercy Health in Youngstown, Ohio, and Brentwood, Tenn.- based Lifepoint Rehabilitation have named Melessa Scattino as its new CEO, The Vindicator reported May 22.