Post-Acute

Basin, Wy.-based Three Rivers Health has closed its nursing home, resulting in $900,000 a year in savings, Wyoming Public Radio reported Nov. 8.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey reached a settlement agreement with a Rowley-based nursing home over failure to implement appropriate infection control procedures at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here are nine nursing home and assisted living facilities, that have opened, closed or broken ground since Oct. 5:

Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health and Birmingham, Ala.-based Encompass Health plan to build a rehabilitation hospital in Louisville, Ky.

The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living sent a joint letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requesting an extension of the public health emergency.

CMS issued its final 2023 rule for the home health prospective payment system, according to an Oct. 31 article on the American Hospital Association website.

The Travis Roy Foundation donated $2 million to Boston-based Spaulding Rehabilitation hospital to provide spinal cord injury equipment to patients, Maine Public reported Oct. 30.

Louisville, Ky.-based Trilogy Health Services leadership joined representatives from the city of Lancaster, Ohio, Lancaster-Fairfield County, and Ohio University to break ground on a new senior living and post-acute campus in Lancaster on Oct. 27.

Limiting or prohibiting visitors at nursing homes caused life-changing challenges for nursing home residents and their loved ones, according to University at Buffalo (N.Y.) researchers.

CMS has updated its nursing home staff vaccination requirements to 100 percent in order to be compliant.