Risk Management
| November 15, 2018
Troubled Buffalo nursing home to close, state says
incidents led the NYS Department of Health to strip operation of Emerald South from its previous owner.
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| October 25, 2018
Challenges in skilled nursing facilities: a conversation
Greystone's Frank Small discusses with Multi-Housing News the impact of the forthcoming Patient-Driven Payment Model on operators and sheds light on other pressing issues in the field.
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| September 14, 2018
Nursing homes residents, staff face tough decision with hurricane
At Trinity Grove, a 100-bed skilled nursing facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, residents will be riding out Hurricane Florence — despite widespread evacuations triggered by the Category 3 storm, which could potentially deliver a historic blow to the Carolinas.
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| September 10, 2018
Nursing home employees allegedly scam resident out of $600k
She trusted the workers at her nursing home to help her, but her Public Guardian says some just helped themselves to her money.
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| August 31, 2018
Short-term care finds role fuzzy with regards to skilled nursing facilities
The shifting tectonic plates in the skilled nursing landscape include a focus on value and a new payment system that puts the focus on medically complex patients and specialties.
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| August 29, 2018
Accountable care organizations save money at cost of skilled nursing
The Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model netted Medicare about $62 million in net savings in its first year of operations — and cutting spending in skilled nursing facilities was a key driver for the decrease.
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| August 8, 2018
Four Connecticut nursing homes fined
The state Department of Public Health has fined four nursing homes following staff errors and lapses in care earlier this year.
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| August 1, 2018
Nursing home admissions halted after resident’s injury, lack of treatment
The patient fractured her knees while falling out of bed in front of a nurse assistant, then complained of "intense pain," state records show.
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| June 27, 2018
More secret data revealed: VA nursing home residents found to have more bed sores than private residents
An analysis of internal documents shows residents at more than two-thirds of Department of Veterans Affairs nursing homes last year were more likely to have serious bedsores, as well as suffer serious pain, than their counterparts in private nursing homes across the country.
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| June 26, 2018
In-house emergency staff providing all kinds of value to skilled nursing provider
Call9, which is based in Brooklyn, N.Y., and embeds paramedics on-site at skilled nursing facilities, partnered with the Archdiocese of New York’s long-term care arm, ArchCare, to bring the emergency services to two of ArchCare’s nursing homes.
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