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Assured Senior Living was ready to grow. If only they could find a bank ready to grow with them. The year was 2018, and the Wheat Ridge, Colorado-based provider of assisted living and memory care services needed a lending partner to help them expand in the residential AL market. The model of 8-16 residents per […] The post “The First Bank That Understood Us”: How One Small-Care Provider Found Its…
The new risk-based nursing-home survey process, set to begin September 8, could raise litigation concerns because the streamlined approach uses fewer survey activities and a smaller resident sample, potentially allowing problems relevant to civil liability cases to go undetected. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) surveys are also only a snapshot of a facility at a particular…
Decades-long data on nursing home closures reveals that ownership changes have become an increasingly important pathway for facilities to remain open, while homes that don’t undergo a change in ownership may be more likely to close. While nearly half of nursing homes from 1985 to 2025 followed a simple entry-to-exit pathway, one-fifth remained open via […] The post Rethinking Nursing Home…
Minimum Data Set (MDS) submissions are about to become a lot more complicated for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) places greater emphasis on the accuracy and timeliness of quality reporting while tightening the MDS reporting window in its final payment rule. Under the FY 2027 SNF Final […] The post Shorter MDS Reporting Window and Growing…
A shortage of guardians, or those empowered to make medical decisions on behalf of incapacitated patients, is contributing to a hospital bottleneck in Massachusetts, according to a report published by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) and Eastern Research Group, in collaboration with the Bureau of Health Safety and Quality. The DPH estimates there […] The post Guardian Shortage…
Constant policy changes with already excessive compliance in place have long been a source of burnout for nursing home staff. But for skilled nursing industry veteran, Lisa Chubb, chief nursing officer for Venza Care, creating a culture designed specifically to support staff, what she refers to as “putting your oxygen mask on first, ” has […] The post Venza CNO Lisa Chubb Urges Clinical Leaders to…
A three-facility, 347-bed skilled nursing portfolio in Michigan changed hands. Meanwhile, a three-facility, 360-bed portfolio in New Mexico was also sold. 347-bed SNF sold in Michigan Evans Senior Investments (ESI) completed the sale of a three-facility, 347-bed skilled nursing portfolio in Michigan on behalf of an institutional owner exiting the state. Welltower acquired the […] The post Skilled…
Executive and key department head salaries at nursing homes increased in 2026 as turnover rates and the use of sign-on bonuses continued to decline. This is according to the 2026-2027 Nursing Home Salary & Benefits Report from the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) released Thursday. The report found that compensation growth was concentrated among core administrative and operational…
As part of the federal government’s new risk-based survey model, nursing homes will be marked as “high-performing” using a little gold trophy icon on Care Compare. While the icon could be a powerful marketing tool, sector leaders warn that its use could be problematic on many fronts. First, the gold trophy’s presence could create the […] The post The Gold Trophy Comes With Caveats: Nursing Homes…
There is a growing prevalence of so-called nuclear verdicts – jury awards ranging from around $1 million to $3 million for nursing homes. However, legal experts say these decisions also offer clear lessons for operational changes that providers can make to reduce risk. Juror anger is the leading factor driving outsized awards, according to Mollie Werwas, an attorney with Illinois-based Airdo […]…
Health officials are closely monitoring emerging drug-resistant fungus Candida auris in nursing homes and other healthcare settings caring for medically vulnerable patients, following the identification of more than 3,400 clinical cases of the superbug through July 25. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System has tracked C. auris cases…
