Some state legislatures are looking closely at the sustainability of long-term care, looking at the rapidly aging population and increasing the need for such services over the next few years. In Pennsylvania, the state discussed the 2025-26 budget and testified about the refund during legislative hearing this spring. Pennsylvania's budget adjustment factor (BAF) represents a major setback to sustainability, as it widens the gap between cost of care and operator payments. According to Brent Willett, president and CEO of the Iowa Health Care Association, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is expected to seek full retransport of Medicaid that is very closely…
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Dozens of nursing homes were part of the troubled Mission Point healthcare chain that crossed healthcare last month. Split leaves most of the company's lowest performance homes in mission points names. But two new intersecting health facilities in Hancock and Grand Building are candidates for the federal government's special focus facility programme targeting the worst facilities in the country. The home, now known as Hancock's Cross Healthcare, was fined $180,000 by the federal government after the Covid-19 outbreak hit 40 of the 45 residents of the home last summer, killing one. The Grandville facility was cited last year for neglecting…
Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – Workers at 11 local nursing homes, represented by 1199SEIU, hope that a new labor contract will be agreed tentatively before the strike begins Tuesday morning. Shameka Burnette-Matthews, 1199SEIU's management organizer, said negotiations with nursing home facilities will continue Monday in the hopes of avoiding a strike. “Our members are willing to attack the quality profits they deserve, but once again they want to be inside, take care of the residents and sign a temporary contract before tomorrow morning,” said Burnette-Matthews, who appeared on Wben. A small number of Western New York nursing homes have managed to…
David A. Stras Jr., the hall home to the College of Nursing, received the “redefined urbanism” honor at the Mayor's Design Award in 2025. The annual award honors the Milwaukee site, which respects city fabrics and adds value to its neighbourhood by restoring, building or enhancing property in a way that contributes to the character of its surroundings. The awards were announced on Friday, May 16th. The College of Nursing officially welcomed David A. Stras Jr., Hall and David A. Stras Jr. at the beginning of the fall semester. The building undergoes radical transformation after working as the home of…
CT, Trumbull (WFSB) – More than 100 nursing home patients were evacuated from a Trumbull facility last week.St. Joseph's Center took an emergency evacuation on Friday, according to the Trumbull Fire Department.A total of 107 patients were evacuated as what the firefighter S described as “a serious obstacle identified in the building's fire life safety system.””During the ongoing safety assessment, facility leadership worked with fire safety experts and local governments to identify serious defects that were classified as “conditions that are immediately dangerous to life and health,” the firefighter said. “These failures undermine the building's ability to ensure the protection…
The title of ‘internationally educated nurse’ is viewed among the profession as both a “badge of pride” as well as a “marker of disparity and difference”, a conference has heard. Nurses last week discussed the significance of the term and what the long-term effects of its use might be for nurses working in the UK who were trained overseas. “When used with respect, this title becomes a symbol of resilience, adaptability and global competence” Liza Delfin The debate came during the 2025 Royal College of Nursing Congress, which was held in Liverpool last week. Chinenye Ubah, from the RCN Eastern…
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool helping staff access documents such as clinical guidelines is saving nurses at an NHS trust in the East of England a total of 140,000 hours a year, its creators say. MyStaff, which runs on a mobile phone or a desktop, has been used at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust in a bid to make it easier for nurses and midwives to access important guidance. “I want to make sure my staff are in with the families and not wasting time trying to find a computer” Tabitha Stuthridge The trust has uploaded thousands of…
Nurses and midwives in Scotland will see their wages increase from next month as unions have agreed to the government’s pay offer. The deal will see pay rises for NHS Agenda for Change staff of 4.25% in 2025-26 and 3.75% in 2026-27, equating to 8% over the two-year period. “We want to ensure they feel valued and rewarded” Neil Gray It also includes an “inflation guarantee” that will ensure the pay increase each year will be at least one percentage point above Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation. Unions have been balloting their members on the offer since it was put…
Robert I. Field argues that private equity has a limited impact on price competition between nursing homes, as prices are primarily determined by Medicaid. However, private equity affects quality and labor outcomes. This deserves greater government scrutiny. This article is part of a series that explores how private equity in the US health sector reduces competition and enforcers can respond. You can read the rest of the series published here. The hospital and physician sector tends to attract the attention of most people, but nursing homes also represent a significant portion of the healthcare industry as a whole. That is…
State officials allow the purchase of publicly owned nursing homes in southern Wisconsin, despite previously blocking the same owner from taking over different homes due to a history of quality concern at the facility.The approval fears that after residents lobbyed the state health department and refused to sell the Salk County Health Care Center, it could lead to a decline in the quality of care at a facility about 61 miles northwest of Madison, Leesburg.Regulators approved an application from Salk County Aria to purchase the home earlier this month, telling group leader Akiba Brandman, “DHS has determined that the applicant…