Skilled Nursing News January 4, 2022
Nursing homes have long been seen as the place where elderly Medicare and Medicaid patients spend their final years, but as these institutions look to evolve post-COVID, their role in the long-term care continuum continues to expand.
Over the course of the year, SNN has seen operators open in-house dialysis units, renovate their facilities for more open space designs and private rooms and add more clinical specialists to their teams, all to attract a sicker resident population and build back hospital referrals lost during the pandemic.
But as nursing homes continue to see an influx of higher acuity patients, one way facilities can better keep up is by diversifying their service options, investing in value-based care and using data and...