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While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has published a laundry list of possible enforcement actions for nursing homes that fail to meet new staffing requirements, providers can only wonder how the agency might actually penalize non-compliance.
More for-profit investment groups are buying skilled care nursing facilities and experts say the only way for them to be profitable is to reduce the quality of care.
Long-term care leaders sat for a roundtable discussion on hiring practices sponsored by Hireology. Even though wages and benefits have increased for the
Shelly Olson's mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing home in rural Sister Bay, Wisconsin, for almost five years. At first, Olson said, her mother received great care at the facility, then owned by a not-for-profit organization, the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society.
For-profit groups own more than 70% of U.S. nursing homes. Industry leaders and researchers wonder whether corporations and investors can succeed where not-for-profit organizations have struggled. Or, will quality of care suffer in the name of making money?