Post-Acute

CMS is placing extra oversight on new hospices in four states — Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas — because of a yearlong stack of hospice fraud, waste and abuse reports.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health Carolinas Rehabilitation is the only U.S. rehab hospital to be granted membership to the inaugural class of the World Rehabilitation Alliance.

Illinois has the highest percentage of nursing facilities with actual harm or immediate jeopardy warnings while Maine has the lowest.

Pablo Celnik, MD, a physiatrist and physician-scientist from Johns Hopkins University, was named CEO of Chicago-based Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, according to a June 29 facility news release. 

A KFF report found 45 percent of nursing facilities did not meet staffing levels of 3.5 direct care hours per resident day.

Here are the top two rehabilitation hospitals in North Dakota, according to U.S. News & World Report rankings.

The Joint Commission partnered with the Alzheimer's Association to create the Memory Care Certification for Assisted Living Communities.

A New Hampshire home-care provider must pay roughly $1 million in back wages and damages after denying overtime wages to 36 employees.

Here are six systems hiring leaders in rehabilitation centers and units:

Four trends in post-acute care have emerged in the first half of 2023.