Closures

ProPublica adds new nursing home ownership, quality search tool … Insurers refused to cover business interruptions and added virus exclusions. A government insurance option might not work either …...

Broad guidance kept some nursing homes from using as much Provider Relief funding as intended … Sudden nursing home closure leaves staff without pay, residents hastily relocating … High-dose flu vax...

Nursing home faces second civil lawsuit in case of Pennsylvania’s ‘killer’ nurse … 155-bed facility down to 11 residents, will be third CT nursing home to close in months … Study highlights importance...

Shifting payment policies have decreased Medicare spending on patients requiring mechanical ventilation, but they also have led to the closure of many long-term care hospitals and have driven more patients...

After providing care in three different centuries, Lutheran Home and Rehabilitation Center is closing its doors due to regulatory and funding pressures.

Iowa has increased its Medicaid rate, put millions of dollars into workforce development, approved tort reform, and enacted a moratorium on new nursing home licenses, but the state continues to lose nursing...

Two-thirds of COVID vaccine recipients who got an incentive said it didn’t sway them … New South Dakota legislative committee to study nursing home closures, causes … State legislators allocate...

Although many industries continue to struggle with the after-effects of COVID-19, perhaps no segment of the economy has suffered as extensively as the long-term care industry. According to the American...

Kansas hit a dubious milestone recently with the 52nd nursing home either shutting down entirely or taking beds offline since the beginning of the pandemic. 

A pair of citizen advocacy groups want the state of Massachusetts to take over half of the nursing homes on the western side of the state slated for closure to avert what they call a chaotic transfer process.