An all-government approach is needed to help the nursing home industry recover from its current crisis, Katie Smith Sloan wrote for The Hill last week.

Over 730,000 residents have recovered from COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to a new report from the American Healthcare Association and National Center for Assisted Living. 

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health Carolinas Rehabilitation and Qatar Rehabilitation Institute recently entered into a partnership aimed at improving quality of care and outcomes for rehabilitation patients globally. 

One of Iowa's largest nursing home chains has been sold to Cedar Health Group, a holding company based in Lakewood, N.J., The Iowa Capital Dispatch reported March 22. 

Since police discovered a makeshift morgue of 17 bodies at Woodland Behavioral and Nursing Center at Andover (N.J.) in April 2020, there has been increased scrutiny on the facility as allegations of neglect continue to stream in.

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

COVID-19 itself should be blamed for nursing home resident deaths, not the facilities housing them, David Gifford, MD, wrote for USA Today last week.

Nursing home quality improvements have been on an upward trend for the last decade, a new report from the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living found. 

Alaska has the highest proportion of facilities reporting nursing home staff shortages in the U.S., while California has the lowest, a new analysis from Kaiser Family Foundation found.

Republican senators have asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the conditions of a troubled New Jersey nursing home, The Hill reported March 17.

Thirty-six percent of U.S. nursing home residents and 64 percent of staffers had not received a COVID-19 booster as of late February, an AARP analysis published March 17 found.

A New York state audit released this week found the state's health department under former Gov. Andrew Cuomo failed to publicly account for 4,100 COVID-19 deaths of nursing home residents. 

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

State regulators said a North Carolina nursing home that left three staff members to take care of 98 residents in January put its residents in "immediate jeopardy" after failing to enact an emergency plan, The News & Observer reported March 15.

New Jersey will send monitors to Woodland Behavioral and Nursing Center at Andover amid continued complaints of "abusive" and "neglectful" actions, Northjersey.com reported. 

Long-term care residents and staff with symptoms or signs of COVID-19 must be tested immediately, regardless of vaccination status, under updated CMS guidance for long-term care facilities. 

Argentum, a national trade association for senior living facilities, recently honored 10 recipients with its 2022 Champions of Seniors Award.

The Joint Commission and Alzheimer’s Association are uniting to improve the quality and safety of dementia care in nursing, skilled nursing, and assisted-living facilities, the organizations said March 10.

Alaska provides the most hours of daily care to nursing home residents in the U.S., while Illinois offers the least, data from a quarterly Long Term Care Community Coalition report shows.

The American HealthCare Association and the National Center for Assisted Living  are seeking a meeting with President Joe Biden and the head of CMS to discuss what they called "factually incorrect" information presented during the president's recent announcement of nursing home reforms.