Stephen Hanse News Today

Providers in states that have recently increased their own nursing home staffing requirements may soon find themselves playing a complicated penalties and numbers game — and buried in additional paperwork.

LTC providers took a legal blow when a state Supreme Court judge struck down a challenge to the state’s staffing mandate law

Skilled nursing providers have been working hard to reduce agency dependency in the wake of the pandemic and rising labor costs.

Nearly four years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, families and advocates say nursing homes are still in crisis.

It’s a follow-up to an initial audit in March 2022 finding the state was unprepared to respond to infectious disease outbreaks in these facilities.

After 15 years of Medicaid reimbursement cuts, a group of providers says a cost-of-living increase is not enough to address funding issues 

State health officials declined to release the list of nursing homes in violation of staffing minimum law. USA TODAY Network is pursuing the records.

New York nursing home providers are at odds with the state over a workforce shortage as enforcement of a state staffing mandate began Monday.

Two New York municipalities and a union have developed a novel program to address nursing home workforce issues.  

Nursing home operators in New York are pressing hard to win a significant Medicaid rate increase for 2024, while at the same time, state lawmakers are moving closer to adding more oversight funding.