Demand for full-time workers in long-term nursing facilities is projected to increase by 42% between 2021 and 2036, but the number of people entering the field is not keeping up with demand, ABC News reported May 24.

The American Health Care Association, Texas Health Care Association and multiple long-term nursing home facilities in Texas filed a lawsuit May 23 against CMS over its recently finalized staffing rules.

A 52-year-old woman was charged with 33 felony counts after police said she worked as a nurse at three skilled nursing facilities without a license.

While only 19% of nursing homes across the U.S. currently meet the new staffing standards finalized by the Biden administration in April, most facilities will have between two and five years to get in compliance, according to KFF.

A New Brunswick, N.J.-based Rutgers Health study found blood pressure medications more than double the risk of bone fractures in nursing home residents.

Two House representatives have introduced the Congressional Review Act to overturn the minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes, The Hill reported May 16.

Here are 10 systems and facilities closing their long-term care, nursing homes and rehabilitation units in 2024:

Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health and Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based-Select Medical are closing a co-owned rehabilitation clinic in Flower Mound, Texas, resulting in the termination of 78 employees.

A proposed rehab hospital in Bradenton, Fla., secured $38 million in financing to begin construction, the Business Observer reported May 13.

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital appointed Brian Mann CEO.

Loma Linda (Calif.) University Health is partnering with Lifepoint Rehabilitation to open an inpatient rehabilitation facility in Loma Linda.

A Kentucky man was charged with arson for allegedly setting a fire in a resident's room at the nursing home where he is employed, ABC affiliate WHAS11 reported May 7.

Five lawmakers are demanding information about corporate spending from three of the country's largest public, for-profit nursing homes after the operators said they cannot afford to meet the new minimum staffing threshold, The Hill reported May 6.

White Plains, N.Y.-based Burke Rehabilitation Hospital appointed Scott Edelman as executive director.

The Ensign Group, which invests in post-acute and healthcare services and real estate, acquired a rehab hospital and seven skilled nursing facilities in six states, it said in a May 1 news release.

The Nursing Home Workforce Standard Board in Minnesota voted to raise the minimum wage for nursing home workers to an average of $23.49 and guarantee 11 paid holidays, the Minnesota Reformer reported April 29.

Cross Hospitals broke ground on Tucson (Ariz.) Rehabilitation Hospital.

The White House has finalized a policy mandating home care providers spend at least 80% of Medicaid payments on direct care workers. 

A KFF estimate found that only 19% of nursing facilities meet the new minimum staffing standards issued by CMS yesterday.

The first minimum staffing rule for nursing homes has been finalized, according to an April 22 White House fact sheet.