McKnight's December 3, 2021
Skilled nursing facilities could be facing a severe, financially unstable future as operators try to adjust to lower patient volumes and a shift toward home care, according to Forbes columnist Howard Gleckman.
“As it has in so many other ways, the nursing home story shows how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed deep flaws in our system of care for older adults. Now, we need to figure out what to do about it,” Gleckman wrote in a Thursday column.
Recent data shows the percentage of hospital discharges to home health has remained steady (around 20%), while SNF discharges dropped from about 20% to below 15% through October, 2020. At the same time, researchers have found that SNFs accounted for just 31%...
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