In 10 years, post-acute care will resemble the hospitals of today, Rajeev Kumar, MD, president of AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, told Becker's. 

Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health and Birmingham, Ala.-based Encompass Health opened a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Louisville.

The American Hospital Association sent letters to the Senate and House June 25 urging them to stop CMS from enforcing its final rule on minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.

Maryland's director of the agency that regulates nursing homes and hospital safety resigned effective June 27 — about a month after a lawsuit was filed alleging the agency failed to properly inspect facilities, The Washington Post reported June 20.

Tacoma, Wash.-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health is closing its outpatient rehabilitation and physical therapy clinic in Port Orchard, Wash., July 12, Gig Harbor Now reported June 20.

Following an 18-month investigation, the U.S. Justice Department found that the state of Missouri violated the Americans with Disabilities Act for "unnecessarily institutionalizing adults with mental health disabilities in nursing facilities," according to a report published June 18.

After more than two years of a looming threat of closure, San Francisco-based Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center has been approved for Medicare recertification, according to San Francisco city news release.

Biddeford, Maine-based University of New England received nearly $5 million to educate and train Maine's healthcare workforce in geriatric care.

Lynn Ricci plans to retire as president and CEO of the New Britain, Conn.-based Hospital for Special Care in 2025.

Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System's Post-Acute Care Collaboration Strategy program saved the system more than $815,000 in 2023.

Indianapolis Rehabilitation Hospital named Logan Savage CEO.

Many nursing homes are closing due to financial strain, but changing service models from fee-for-service to value-based care could help improve their finances, Rajeev Kumar, MD, president of AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, told Becker's.

A Woburn, Mass.-based nursing home agreed to pay $4 million to settle allegations that it deliberately failed to properly staff its nursing homes.

Boulder, Colo.-based Frasier Retirement Community was given only 75 minutes notice before Xcel Energy cut its electrical service April 6 amid dry and windy wildfire conditions, KFF News reported June 10. Facility staff then had to continue care for 500 patients for 28 hours without power.

St. Louis, Mo.-based Dover Health is expanding into the Chicagoland area with the acquisition of Joliet, Ill.-based Centered Care Hospice and Palliative Care, and Cornerstone Home Health.

Patients at Joint Commission-accredited long term acute hospitals get fewer catheter-associated urinary tract infections and fewer central line-associated bloodstream infections than those at nonaccredited ones, a study published in the June 2024 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety found. 

Atlanta-based LaVie Care Centers — one of the country's largest operators of skilled nursing facilities — has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Bloomberg reported June 3.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health deemed a nursing home in Scranton, Pa., "unsafe" May 31, leading to the relocation of about 85 residents, WVIA, a PBS News affiliate reported.

Nursing home closures in New England have outpaced closures in all other Medicaid regions, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston report.

Mercy Health in Youngstown, Ohio, and Brentwood, Tenn.- based Lifepoint Rehabilitation have named Melessa Scattino as its new CEO, The Vindicator reported May 22.