Skilled Nursing News June 18, 2024
Members of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition are calling on the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to implement significant changes to its loan programs to better serve nursing homes.
In an editorial published on Monday in Health Affairs and co-authored by David Grabowski, a health care policy researcher based at Harvard, Alice Bonner, chair of Moving Forward, Richard Gamache, CEO of Aldersbridge Communities, and others, the coalition emphasized the urgent need for HUD to incentivize improvements in the quality and care models of nursing home facilities, specifically for those making transformations to “household models.”
“Nursing homes are people’s homes. With lower interest rates predicted for 2024, there’s no better time to align mortgage loans and associated...