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7 New York nursing homes successfully deprescribe residents …
Zee Johnson. October 11, 2024. ›. The United Hospital Fund’s collaboration with seven New York nursing homes spurred an 8% decrease in the number of potentially harmful medications prescribed ...
BREAKING: PACS nursing home group files for public offering
PACS said Wednesday it could raise up to $100 million through its initial stock offering, though Renaissance estimated a potential value of up to $500 million. The move to go public bucks a recent ...
PDPM Medicaid CMI and potential Five-Star Rating challenges
2024年3月1日 · The landscape of Medicaid reimbursement for nursing homes is undergoing significant changes. Presently, eight states have adopted the PDPM case-mix index (CMI) model, and an additional 31 states ...
SNFs’ financial performances diverging more than ever before: …
2024年10月11日 · The national median SNF occupancy rate rose to 80.2% in 2023, well above the low of 72.9% in 2021. But it still has a ways to go to reach the 2019 pre-pandemic benchmark of 85.8%. Individual state ...
Private equity firm with nursing home holdings files for bankruptcy ...
2024年10月9日 · Credit: KLH49/Getty Images. Goldner Capital Management, a private equity firm once prominent in the skilled nursing sector, has filed for bankruptcy and placed blame on what it calls a COVID-era ...
Judge slashes punitive damages, throws out verdicts against two …
2024年1月5日 · Two corporate defendants in a nursing home negligence case that netted plaintiffs a $19 million verdict have been found not liable following post-ruling motions, while a judge reduced punitive ...
Prevnar 20 can be safely administered to seniors along with a flu …
2021年9月29日 · A recently approved pneumococcal vaccine that protects against 20 types of bugs can be safely given together with an adjuvanted influenza vaccine in adults aged 65 and older, according to late ...
Also in the News for Wednesday, Oct. 2
2024年10月2日 · CMS finds lower mortality rates, mixed readmission success in its first study of the hospital at home initiative … Labor department docks nursing home $24K over unpaid benefits, sick leave ...
Falling raises dementia risk, study finds
2024年10月2日 · Of those, 10.6% were diagnosed with dementia during the first year after the fall, the study found. Falls increased the risk of a future dementia diagnosis by 21%, the data showed. The findings ...