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A Long Term Care Community Coalition report finds nursing home fines fell 56.5% between 2022 and 2024 even as cited deficiencies rose, with 49 states imposing fewer fines in 2024. Rehinged's data shows 1,986 scored facilities rated two stars or below on health inspections have no fines on record, while another 330 carry high penalty risk, 133 of them in Illinois. Separately, a roughly $2 million national study will examine how nursing homes use agency staff, and 2,060 scored facilities sit in the top fifth for contract labor spending.
Inside this editionFines Fall 56.5% Across 49 States Even as Cited Deficiencies… · $2 Million Federal Study Will Examine How Nursing Homes Actu…
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A CLA report finds national SNF median occupancy reached 84.8% in 2025, but growth has slowed to 1.9 points from 6.3 in 2024, and operating margins climb from 1.8% at one-star…
Quality · Market Trends · Reimbursement · Regulatory · M&A / OwnershipGenesis HealthCare's roughly $1 billion bankruptcy sale is set to be signed today, with the bankruptcy court asked to confirm the Chapter 11 exit on Tuesday.
M&A / Ownership · Regulatory · Infection PreventionMassachusetts' Medicaid program now cuts payment rates 8% for nursing homes staffing below 3.00 hours per resident per day, up from penalties of 0.5% to 3%, and CMS begins…
Staffing · Regulatory · Reimbursement · Quality & RatingsA Long Term Care Community Coalition report finds nursing home fines fell 56.5% between 2022 and 2024 even as cited deficiencies rose, with 49 states…
A CLA report finds national SNF median occupancy reached 84.8% in 2025, but growth has slowed to 1.9 points from 6.3 in 2024, and operating margins climb from 1.8% at one-star…
Genesis HealthCare's roughly $1 billion bankruptcy sale is set to be signed today, with the bankruptcy court asked to confirm the Chapter 11 exit on Tuesday.
Massachusetts' Medicaid program now cuts payment rates 8% for nursing homes staffing below 3.00 hours per resident per day, up from penalties of 0.5% to 3%, and CMS begins…
Signature HealthCARE says its AI fall-monitoring system cut falls 80% across 20 buildings, and Trilogy Health Services says chest-worn monitors on about 300 high-risk residents…
Cascadia Healthcare closed on 22 Avamere facilities on October 1 and has agreed to buy 14 Ohana Ventures and 11 Sapphire Health homes, which will make it Oregon's largest…
A Boston Globe Spotlight investigation, reported by Skilled Nursing News, found that out-of-state chains grew from 12 Massachusetts nursing homes in 2019 to 61 today, and that…
CMS-certified nursing homes have dropped from 15,648 in 2015 to under 14,748 today — a 5% national capacity decline since 2019 that KFF Health News tied to unsustainable…
This week's post-acute news pulls in two directions at once.
Nursing homes assigned to give residents and staff the recombinant quadrivalent influenza vaccine recorded confirmed influenza outbreaks in 36.6% of buildings, against 44.5% of…
A watchdog analysis of CMS enforcement data published last week found that nursing home fines fell 55% between 2022 and 2024 even as health citations rose 12%, and that roughly…
Skilled nursing PEPPER reports were published again this week, restoring after a three-year dormancy the facility-level billing-outlier report that CMS and its contractors use…
CMS moved on Tuesday to expand its ACCESS Model with new payment tracks for heart failure and COPD, extending remote monitoring and connected-device reimbursement to two…
One week into the Risk-Based Survey, the Center for Medicare Advocacy is arguing the shortened inspection violates the 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act, and Consumer Voice is…
The Risk-Based Survey went live nationwide on September 8, creating for the first time a formal two-tier inspection regime: roughly one in eight nursing homes gets a shortened…
Two stories this week put a price on problems operators usually treat as clinical or cultural.
The risk-based survey process goes live nationwide on Monday, September 8, and CMS will begin posting the qualifying facility list to Care Compare on September 30.
At 5:00 p.m.
The week closed with federal oversight moving from concept to mechanics.
Health Net is terminating its CalAIM assisted living benefit at the end of the year, and provider contracts start unwinding on October 7.
Two federal moves are quietly re-segmenting the skilled nursing market.
Two federal developments landed within hours of each other this week, and they pull in opposite directions.
Two stories this week put hard numbers behind pressures operators have been bracing for all year.
KFF's analysis of the first payer-level prior authorization data CMS required insurers to publish shows standard requests were denied 12% of the time in Medicare Advantage, 14%…
CDC's provisional surveillance through the week ending July 25 put Candida auris at 3,437 clinical cases across 27 states this year, and health officials are pointing at…
Risk-Based Surveys go live nationally on September 8, and CMS expects roughly 12% of nursing homes to earn the lighter-touch treatment and a high-performer icon on Care Compare.
Two currents dominated the weekend's news.
This week's transaction news pointed at one state.
CMS begins its national Risk-Based Survey rollout on September 8, and the debate over who benefits reached local press this week as operators and resident advocates split over…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta secured a $15 million Medi-Cal settlement from Sweetwater Care, a 17-facility skilled nursing chain that state staffing data showed fell…
The FY 2027 Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System final rule landed Wednesday afternoon, and the headline number — a 2.4% net rate update worth $882.74 million —…
Care Compare is scheduled to refresh today with recalibrated quality measure thresholds, which McKnight's reports may leave providers with a lower rating despite unchanged…
Two money stories bookend the weekend.
The week's dominant story is financial.
Two forces defined the past two days in post-acute care, and both land on cash flow.
The weekend brought the implementation details behind last Thursday's risk-based survey announcement — and they sharpen the story considerably.
CMS confirmed this week that it will move nursing home surveys to a nationwide risk-based model, concentrating inspector attention on the lowest-rated facilities while easing…
Two stories dominate the mid-July news cycle, and both come with hard numbers attached.
Two federal signals dominated the weekend.
Two forces defined the post-acute week.
This edition splits into two clear lanes.
The long-forecast demographic wave is now arriving.
Two enforcement fronts opened this week.
Two forces defined the post-acute news cycle over the past 48 hours, and they pull in opposite directions.
The weekend's post-acute news converged on one pressure point: the people who do the work.
This week's post-acute news points in one direction: financial gravity.
The past few days reinforced a pattern operators know all too well: infection prevention remains the single most-cited nursing home deficiency in 2026, carried into the year on…
Two regulatory threads opened the week, both pointing at the same pressure point: how nursing homes are staffed and paid.
Two threads dominated post-acute care this week.
The week's defining theme is financial: MedPAC used its June report to warn Congress that Medicare Advantage growth is eroding the economics of post-acute care, landing on…
Two federal moves this week pull skilled nursing in opposite directions.
The biggest regulatory event of the year for skilled nursing landed this week: the federal minimum staffing mandate has been rescinded, taking the 24/7 registered-nurse…
The dominant theme this week is financial pressure colliding with operational fragility.
The FY2027 SNF payment debate sharpened this week as McKnight's reported that nursing homes in roughly half of all US markets could watch their proposed Medicare increases…
Today marks the deadline for industry comments on the proposed FY 2027 SNF Prospective Payment System rule, and the nursing home sector is fighting a two-front margin war.
Two CMS actions converge this week to squeeze skilled nursing facility margins from both sides of the ledger.
Two forces are reshaping the skilled nursing landscape this week.
Two major CMS actions landed in the same week, creating a dual-front reimbursement challenge for skilled nursing operators.
Two forces are reshaping the skilled nursing landscape this week.
Two moves from Washington this week signal a harder operating environment for skilled nursing facilities that depend on government payers.
CareTrust REIT has closed roughly $990 million in skilled nursing transactions year-to-date, with $865 million landing since early April alone.
Two CMS actions this week send distinct but converging signals to the skilled nursing sector.
Two parallel forces are reshaping the SNF regulatory landscape this week.
Healthcare bankruptcy filings jumped 33% in the first quarter of 2026, with senior care and outpatient providers driving two-thirds of all cases.
The FY 2027 SNF Proposed Rule lands with a net 2.4% payment increase, but the real story is the $208 million in Value-Based Purchasing reductions that will offset gains for…
Former CMS COO Jonathan Blum warned this week that a version of the nursing home staffing mandate could return after the November elections, keeping 2,007 understaffed…
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