Skilled Nursing News February 18, 2025
As the nursing home industry grapples with federal audits related to changes in survey requirements – seen as compounding burdens on staff – the sector lags behind other health care areas in filling openings for nurses.
Signature HealthCARE’s Chief Nursing Officer Barbara Revelette shared her thoughts on the fallout from ramped-up CMS scrutiny related to inappropriate diagnoses and psychotropic drug prescriptions and the federal agency’s delays in reporting nursing home deficiency citations as well as her company’s program for foreign nurses, noting that the recruitment of international nurses is key to easing some of these challenges.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a series of major revisions to its long-term care survey guidelines, now scheduled to take...
Today's Sponsors
Today's Sponsor