Skilled Nursing News May 10, 2021
Maggie Flynn

Occupancy recovery in skilled nursing facilities will depend on a variety of factors: COVID-19 vaccination uptake among staff and residents, visitation policies of nursing homes, the willingness of family members to place their loved ones in the SNF setting, and acute care’s return to normal.

At least, that was the theory.

One of the looming questions emerging from COVID-19 is whether or not hospitals will continue to discharge patients to home health at the rate they did during the pandemic. One study from September last year found that while hospital discharges were climbing back to normal after hitting lows during the spring of 2020, discharges to the skilled nursing setting hit a low with little to no sign of recovery.

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