Skilled Nursing News January 7, 2025
As the dust finally began to settle in 2024 from the operational storm unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing home operators found themselves in a good position to turn to an issue that had not been so much ignored as largely postponed in the wake of the lasting damage.
Closures along with mergers and acquisitions altered the landscape of the sector in 2024, with major nursing home organizations such as the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, undergoing substantial changes to its footprint. Now, these organizations are planning to give more attention to improving infrastructure, opening more service lines and recentering facilities on new business models.
While the nursing home industry continues to battle an ongoing worker shortage amid a slew...