Post-Acute

Thirty-one residents were evacuated in school buses from the Peach Tree Village assisted living facility in Brandon, Miss. due to flooding, CNN reported Aug. 24.

Pittsburgh-based health care workers across 24 facilities submitted a notice to strike, CBS Pittsburgh reported Aug. 23. 

HHS awarded $25 million to Illinois, Kansas, New Hampshire, American Samoa and Puerto Rico to expand access to home- and community-based services through Medicaid's Money Follows the Person program.

A common misconception among payers and ACOs is that eliminating skilled nursing stays for post-acute patient care will save money. In reality, most patients who leave the acute care setting and find themselves in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) aren’t…

Here are six nursing homes closing in 2022:

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that the current design for nursing homes is not conducive to infection control, Kenneth Scott, MD, wrote in Forbes.

Plano, Texas-based Resilient Healthcare and White Rock Medical Center in Dallas formed a partnership to deliver outpatient therapy to patients virtually and in their homes.

San Francisco-based Laguna Honda nursing home received a two-month extension on its closure deadline, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Aug. 15.

Hawaii has the highest-rated nursing homes in the U.S. while Arkansas has the lowest, according to an analysis published Aug. 10 from NiceRx.

Below are five hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that have recently posted job listings seeking post-acute care talent.