Ahead of hurricane season this year, Ferncrest Manor Living Center in New Orleans submitted a summary of its evacuation plan to the Louisiana Department of Health, just like the 93 other nursing homes in Louisiana’s most storm-prone parishes.
Ferncrest Manor's plan garnered special attention from state health officials. The nursing home listed a campground with rustic cabins and recreational vehicle park in Tangipahoa Parish as a possible evacuation location for its medically-fragile residents.
Companies that acquire nursing homes and other healthcare facilities in New Jersey must preserve employee salaries and benefits for a minimum of four months under a bill Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Thursday.
The pandemic has decimated the industry’s bottom line, prompting some owners to sell. The outcome has been bad for some employees, who have seen their wages and benefits trimmed or eliminated after these properties change hands, according to unions leaders who lobbied for the bill.
Here in Wisconsin, more than one in four long-term care positions are currently sitting unfilled, as long-term care providers continue to struggle to find help for those in nursing homes, memory care facilities, and other assisted living centers. Earlier this month, a new report from a coalition of long-term care groups outlined the current crisis, and how it came to be. WORT Producer Nate Wegehaupt spoke with one of those long-term care groups to find out how this issue can be fixed.
The deadline to close a nursing home administered by the city of San Francisco has been extended by two months and patients will no longer be transferred or discharged as part of a federally mandated closure plan, local, state and federal officials said. Laguna Honda was set to close on Sept. 13. Officials had been ordered to discharge or transfer more than 600 patients whose care is paid for by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS. Last month, regulators agreed to pause the transfers after several patients died after leaving the nursing home.
Dr. Madeline Sterling is a board-certified general internist and health services researcher. As an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, her research aims to improve healthcare delivery for adults with chronic conditions, with a specific focus on home health care and empowering the home health aide workforce to improve patient care. She sat down with Jessica Abo to discuss her research and her advice for anyone looking to be a pioneer in their field.