Streamlined licensing leads to a record number of new nursing home administrators
By
Josh Henreckson
Dec 20, 2023
After issuing a record number of nursing home administrator licenses in early 2023, one state is adding even more flexibility to help operators hire and retain leaders.
Also in the News for Thursday, Sept. 29
By
Joe Bush
Sep 29, 2022
CMS rescinds right to use COVID tests outside their emergency use designations … Controversial bill aims to close loophole in state nursing home licensing system that allowed squatters … As Hurricane...
Isolated Maine nursing home gets extra year to attract workers — or a buyer
By
John Hall
Aug 05, 2022
Operators of a remote, shuttered Maine nursing home hope a license extension will be just what the doctor ordered to give the struggling facility time to replace staff and reopen for business.
AMDA calls for public list of nursing home industry’s ‘underutilized’ and ‘invisible’ medical...
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 07, 2022
President Biden’s call for nursing home reform must extend to the industry’s clinical leadership as well, a top clinician advocate contends. A public directory would be a step toward transparency...
Governor’s team threatened nursing home licenses, fines in vaccine-ordering dust-up
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 31, 2021
Confusion over unclaimed COVID-19 vaccines led high-ranking New York officials to threaten penalties, license revocations and public shaming of nursing homes they may have wrongly considered at fault.
Nursing home where 12 residents died after Hurricane Irma fighting for its license at hearing
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 30, 2018
The Hollywood, FL, nursing home where a dozen residents died from heat exposure last September is arguing this week for the chance to keep its operating license.
State suspends license, accuses SNF staff of cover-up as facility’s post-Irma death toll rises...
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Sep 22, 2017
Florida officials on Wednesday suspended the license of a nursing home where residents died following Hurricane Irma, claiming staff made late entries to residents’ records in an attempt to alter...
Chat up your in-house counsel
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 10, 2017
Sessions at the LeadingAge Institute covered the need to have documentation and delegation to reduce nursing liability, and another reflected an in-house counsel’s perspective on hot legal topics.
GF Health Products signs support surfaces licensing deal with Simmons
Dec 19, 2012
GF Health Products was recently awarded an exclusive licensing agreement to manufacture Simmons therapeutic support surfaces, the firm announced. The agreement covers powered air and foam healthcare mattresses...
LTC facilities no longer have to pay licensing fees to show movies
Apr 28, 2011
Nursing homes and assisted living facilities are once again exempt from paying movie-licensing fees, thanks to an agreement with the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation.