'An emerging understanding highlights the necessity for a more holistic approach to wellness – one that transcends mere physical examinations and treatments.' #longtermcare #nursinghomes #socialwellness

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A new collaboration aims to add #skillednursing beds to a region with substantial hospital back-ups, while also meeting a growing demand for additional pediatric and dialysis services. #longtermcare #nursinghomes

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Amid shifting cultural norms and a changing legal landscape, legal experts say #skillednursing providers must better understand how to protect employees from sex and gender discrimination — including misgendering — or face increasingly common consequences

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How one growing #skillednursing provider has embraced real estate ownership and a centralized care model to expand. #longtermcare

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'Half of my professional life has been explaining and educating my staff and the wider #skillednursing community that progress is not required for therapy to continue.' #longtermcare #therapy #column

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An Illinois #nursinghome has asked the state’s Supreme Court to adopt a broad interpretation of a COVID-19 immunity provision, arguing the governor “knew how” to include more limitations in a 2020 executive order if he intended to do so #longtermcare

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Hundreds of providers made a last attempt to increase pay rates and limit potential financial penalties of CMS' proposed nursing home pay rule, which many fear will leave #nursinghomes saddled with rising costs and lagging funding #longtermcare

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'CMS, I am asking again: Please critically assess the impact of surveyor staffing shortages on the nursing home industry, both in terms of quality of care and integrity of consumer information.' #longtermcare #surveys #nursinghomes

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'These days, businesses facing unreasonable new rules can embrace a familiar battle cry: See you in court.' #longtermcare #nursinghomes #staffing

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Newly hired caregivers’ impressions of the #onboarding process have a major impact on job satisfaction and #retention , but recent analysis of hundreds of US caregivers and administrators shows a major gap in how the two groups perceive onboarding.

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Industry and legal experts are expressing confidence in a lawsuit that aims to kill a federal nursing home #staffing mandate, with some boldly predicting a fairly straight-forward defeat for the Biden administration. #longtermcare #nursinghomes

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'As physical, occupational, and speech therapists working in skilled nursing facilities, the use of the Human Understanding Metric (HUM) into your practice can significantly elevate the quality of care provided' #longtermcare #skillednursing

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'Time and time again, long-term care personnel put their hearts into their daily routines only to be told or to feel it’s not enough.' #longtermcare #nursinghomes

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Months of grassroots fundraising, government advocacy and even a last-minute plan to transfer #skillednursing beds and eligible residents to a new assisted living memory care wing have not been enough to keep one historic Rhode Island #nursinghome open.

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Many of the same problems facing #longtermcare operators across the country have also increasingly arisen as obstacles for state long-term care #ombudsman programs in recent years, according to a report from the US Government Accountability Office.

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Six weeks after going public, long-term care provider PACS Group announced it was expanding by nearly 25%, adding 53 #skillednursing and assisted living facilities in the Northwest. #longtermcare

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BREAKING: AHCA files lawsuit to dismiss #nursinghome staffing rule
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