Post-Acute

A total of 74.6 percent of physician medicine and rehabilitation residents in 2022 and 2023 were first-generation medical school graduates, according to data from the National Resident Matching Program.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Brooks Rehabilitation and Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic are collaborating on a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency program.

Two women were shot and killed at a Diamond Bar, Calif.-based assisted living facility, Fox affiliate KTTV reported June 24.

An Iowa nursing home that was hit with a $6 million jury verdict was granted a new trial by an appeals court due to improper evidence, the Des Moines Register reported June 22.

A California skilled nursing facility and its management company agreed to pay more than $3.8 million to resolve allegations that they submitted false Medicare and Medicaid claims as part of a physician kickback scheme.

A national study of nearly 4,500 nursing homes found that the adoption of SNFists increases nursing home referrals, but have little effect on lowering rehospitalizations, according to the research published June 14 in JAMA.

Two Louisville, Ky.-based nursing homes are shutting down and will pay more than $1 million in civil money penalties to CMS after site visits found repeated violations.

San Antonio (Texas) Rehabilitation Hospital named Brigid Keough-Jordan CEO.

CMS recently issued a memo outlining "areas of concern" related to missing or inaccurate patient information when patients are transitioning from hospitals to post-acute care providers.

One-third of COVID-19 deaths during the pandemic were associated with nursing homes, which is leading infection control experts to push for more oversight from Congress, according to a June 20 news release from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control…