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.

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.