Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health and Birmingham, Ala.-based Encompass Health plan to build a rehabilitation hospital in Louisville, Ky.

The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living sent a joint letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requesting an extension of the public health emergency.

CMS issued its final 2023 rule for the home health prospective payment system, according to an Oct. 31 article on the American Hospital Association website.

The Travis Roy Foundation donated $2 million to Boston-based Spaulding Rehabilitation hospital to provide spinal cord injury equipment to patients, Maine Public reported Oct. 30.

Louisville, Ky.-based Trilogy Health Services leadership joined representatives from the city of Lancaster, Ohio, Lancaster-Fairfield County, and Ohio University to break ground on a new senior living and post-acute campus in Lancaster on Oct. 27.

Limiting or prohibiting visitors at nursing homes caused life-changing challenges for nursing home residents and their loved ones, according to University at Buffalo (N.Y.) researchers.

CMS has updated its nursing home staff vaccination requirements to 100 percent in order to be compliant.

The Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals visited Sioux City-based Westwood Specialty Care nursing home to investigate 15 separate complaints and four self-reported incidents, the Iowa Capital Dispatch reported Oct. 24.

CMS is increasing oversight and scrutiny of the nation's poorest-performing nursing homes with updates to its Special Focus Facilities program.

St. Louis-based Mercy and Lifepoint Rehabilitation entered into a joint venture agreement with Mercy Hospital South for the new Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital South facility in that city.

For the first time, nursing home residents are not numbered among the dead after Hurricane Ian, suggesting nursing homes facilities had effective emergency responses, according to an Oct. 13 article on AARP's website. 

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan will disburse $50 million to nursing homes and hospitals to ease workforce challenges and COVID-related barriers, Maryland News reported Oct. 16.

MUSC Health Mullins (S.C.) Nursing Center relocated residents to another facility after finding bats living outside, ABC affiliate KNXV reported Oct. 12.

San Francisco city officials and federal regulators reached a settlement regarding Laguna Honda, the city's largest nursing home that was slated to close Nov. 13, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Oct. 12.

The federal government is attempting to block the sale of QHC Facilities, an Iowa-based bankrupt nursing home chain, due to an unpaid $1 million debt to CMS, Iowa Capital Dispatch reported Oct. 11.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Nov. 8 about whether publicly owned nursing homes can be sued for violations of federal law under Medicare and Medicaid, CBS affiliate WXIN reported Oct. 10. 

Dubuque (Iowa) Specialty Care nursing home will be fined at least $20,000 after locking a wheelchair-bound resident outside the building for 11 hours, Iowa Capital Dispatch reported Oct. 3.

Columbia-based University of Missouri researchers are using a $1 million federal grant to help nursing home staffers use texting for patient care instead of fax machines and voicemail, The Center Square reported Oct. 6.

Defiance (Ohio) Healthcare and Rehabilitation is relocating all 48 residents and closing its doors, The Crescent-News reported Oct. 7.

Only 74 percent of nursing home residents in the U.S. and 51 percent of all staff had received one or more COVID-19 booster shots as of Sept. 18, data published Oct. 6 from the Kaiser Family Foundation found.