Post-Acute

After more than two years of a looming threat of closure, San Francisco-based Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center has been approved for Medicare recertification, according to San Francisco city news release.

Biddeford, Maine-based University of New England received nearly $5 million to educate and train Maine's healthcare workforce in geriatric care.

Lynn Ricci plans to retire as president and CEO of the New Britain, Conn.-based Hospital for Special Care in 2025.

Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System's Post-Acute Care Collaboration Strategy program saved the system more than $815,000 in 2023.

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…