Springfield, Ore.-based PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Home Care Services nurses intend to launch a two-week strike in February, according to the Oregon Nurses Association.

CMS said it will finalize the nursing home minimum staffing proposal in 2024, officials said in a national stakeholder call Jan. 23.

The owner of a shuttered nursing home chain admitted to his role in a $38 million employment tax fraud scheme.

St. Jude Home Care, a home health agency that is part of Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, is the first in the nation to receive a certification for pediatrics from Community Health Accreditation Partners.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt received $200,000 to help create an inpatient pediatric rehabilitation unit.

Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based Vibra Healthcare and Rapid City, S.D.-based Monument Health opened a rehabilitation hospital that provides both inpatient medical rehabilitation and long-term acute care.

Newsweek and Statista, a global data research firm, recently named the top nursing homes in 25 states.

Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based CoxHealth and Springfield, Mo.-based Select Medical Corp. are partnering to build an inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Missouri.

The Labor Department is investigating 25 Massachusetts skilled nursing facilities in 21 communities for allegedly withholding overtime wages from at least 624 employees and failing to maintain accurate employment records.

Twenty-three patients at a critical illness recovery hospital in Erie, Pa., were transferred in the early morning hours of Jan. 10 after a utility-related issue, according to reports from local news outlets. 

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Richmond (Va.) appointed Jim Miller as CEO.

A former resident of Northview Village Nursing Home, the largest nursing home in St. Louis, has been located three weeks after the home closed abruptly, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Jan. 10. 

Rome (N.Y.) Health's nursing home named Daniel Kemp assistant administrator.

In an eight-year stretch, 645 nursing facilities in the U.S. closed, the number of nursing facility residents dropped 12% and the average number of hours residents received declined 9%, a KFF analysis found.

The Minnesota Department of Health will hold a public hearing the evening of Jan. 17 regarding the planned closure of Sanford Bemidji (Minn.) Medical Center's inpatient rehabilitation unit.

Ascension Living, part of St. Louis-based Ascension, has entered an agreement to sell its 250-bed nursing home in Lewiston, N.Y., to a private group, The Buffalo News reported Jan.5.

Ellsworth, Maine-based Seaport Village Healthcare, a skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living facility, has submitted a closure plan for its skilled nursing facility to the state's Department of Health and Human Services, a spokesperson for the state DHHS confirmed with Becker's. 

A new California law is taking effect that requires nursing homes to offer residents copies of any information that explains why they are being evicted, calmatters.org reported Jan. 2.

Ludlow-based Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Western Massachusetts filed a $6 million proposal with the state to expand its hospital, the Boston Business Journal reported Jan. 2.

Lifespan Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Center at Newport (R.I.) Hospital was reaccredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities International, Providence Business News reported Dec. 31.