McKnight's August 29, 2024
It was a watershed moment when the muscle-bound hospital lobby recently started advocating for better payment for nursing homes.
Watershed, if not entirely virtuous, for there is plenty of self-interest in the gestures the hospitalists have been making. They have found themselves backed up like the constipated glutton after Thanksgiving dinner due to not enough long-term care beds to discharge medically cleared patients to.
It’s been a predicament we’ve heard about for a while. But not until Thursday have I seen it illustrated with such jaw-dropping numbers and clarity.
This is the kind of stuff that the nursing home lobby should be force-feeding to lawmakers and regulators three times a day and then again for dessert before bedtime.
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