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NIH: Home Test to Treat program to go national, cover COVID-19 …

With its extension across the nation, the Home Test to Treat program now will offer free testing, telehealth and treatment for both COVID-19 and for flu. It is the first public health

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CDC revises public indoor mask guidance; no changes yet for …

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revised its public indoor mask guidance, using local hospital capacity and COVID-19 cases rather than transmission …

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CDC extends free COVID-19 PCR testing program to assisted living

Assisted living communities now have access to free COVID-19 testing through a federal program that previously targeted schools, shelters and correctional facilities. The Centers for …

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ProMedica, once one of nation’s largest skilled nursing chains, …

ProMedica has continued to offload nearly all of its nursing homes while also securing an extension on a loan payoff on $453 million in privately held debt. The quarterly …

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Consulate Healthcare CEO: We’re ‘growing our own’ to rebuild the …

After virtually exiting Florida, where it dominated the skilled nursing landscape before a series of regulatory and legal challenges, Consulate Healthcare is repositioning itself …

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Genesis Healthcare in growth mode as it picks up 38 former …

The deal for Genesis to take over 38 facilities brings the long-time operator back into the REIT’s good graces. Welltower already owns most of Genesis’ real estate, which it …

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BREAKING: Genesis Healthcare announces sweeping leadership, …

Genesis Healthcare Friday morning announced it will replace most of its corporate leadership team and change its operational model as the post-acute provider …

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End-of-life patterns emerge in one-year analysis

A team from Rutgers University tracked the end-of-life trajectories for 199,828 people who used Medicare during the last three years of their lives and died in 2018. All of the …

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Genesis, Skilled Healthcare merger to create huge long-term care

Genesis HealthCare and Skilled Healthcare Group Inc. will merge to create a single long-term and post-acute care company with more than 500 facilities nationwide, the …

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BREAKING: AHCA’s Parkinson to step down next January

February 20, 2024. Share ›. Mark Parkinson, the US nursing home industry’s most influential spokesman for at least a generation, announced today he will be stepping down from his post …

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35-facility nursing home chain files for bankruptcy

Kimberly Marselas. @KimMarselas. September 19, 2023. Share ›. A California company that operates 35 nursing homes in two states has filed for bankruptcy, making more …

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Petersen Health Care in battle for $50 million share of massive …

An operator of nearly 100 Midwest care facilities is now embroiled in a two-front legal battle over more than $50 million in loans. Two lenders say that Petersen Health Care …

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Prioritizing patient-centered care: How senior living leaders are

That was the general consensus at a recent special McKnight’s roundtable discussion that explored the opportunities and challenges in advancing patient-centered care. …

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ProMedica makes near total exit from skilled nursing sector

Welltower released ProMedica from its skilled nursing lease obligation for these considerations, which it said totaled almost $500 million. ProMedica officials called the …

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BREAKING: Good Samaritan Society to exit 15 states, trim capacity …

Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, the nation’s largest nonprofit provider of skilled nursing beds, plans to exit 15 states and reduce its patient and resident …

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Amid ProMedica ouster, advocates question new operator’s …

Weeks after Welltower announced it plans to transition its ProMedica portfolio to a new operator, consumer advocates and mainstream media are questioning the track record of …

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Sabra sees ‘terrific opportunity ahead,’ looks to grow as SNF

Sabra Health Care REIT is focused on revenue growth and acquisitions for 2024, though it's unclear how much of the buying activity will come on the skilled nursing side, …

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Petros Karamanlakis, MD Northwell Health Chief Medical …

Petros Karamanlakis, MD Northwell Health Chief Medical Informatics Officer Health Information Services Hospitalist Department of Hospital Medicine

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Operator disagrees with $3M settlement over wage violations

A Illinois-based skilled nursing operator is paying up but also pushing back against Department of Labor claims in a $3 million wage violation settlement. “Petersen Health Care …

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Petersen Health Care has no plans to go out of business, despite …

Following widespread media reports citing unnamed sources that Petersen Health Care is planning to file for bankruptcy, the operator of nearly 100 care facilities in the rural …

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Petersen bankruptcy likely to involve selling facilities to multiple

Long-term care operator Petersen Health Care said it lis likely to sell off blocks of its facilities as part of its efforts to restructure and pay its debts after filing for Chapter 11 …

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