Below are six hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that have recently posted job listings seeking post-acute care talent.

Health officials determined that five people died of a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in a New York City nursing home, The New York Times reported Nov. 12.

New Orleans nursing home operator, Bob Dean, has reached a $12.5 million settlement in his class action lawsuit, ABC affiliate WGNO reported Nov. 7.

Columbus, Mont.-based Beartooth Manor will close Jan. 7 due to staffing issues, the Independent Record reported Nov. 9.

Basin, Wy.-based Three Rivers Health has closed its nursing home, resulting in $900,000 a year in savings, Wyoming Public Radio reported Nov. 8.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey reached a settlement agreement with a Rowley-based nursing home over failure to implement appropriate infection control procedures at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here are nine nursing home and assisted living facilities, that have opened, closed or broken ground since Oct. 5:

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.