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Updated Guidance For Prevention And Control Of Infections In Nursing Homes

December 31, 2025

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in collaboration with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Society (PALTmed), and the American Geriatrics[...]

ProMedica Health System, Inc. Sued By U.S. For Providing Grossly Substandard Nursing Home Services

December 3, 2025

The United States has intervened and filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania under the False Claims Act (FCA) against ProMedica Health System, Inc. (ProMedica) and various affiliated entities including HCR ManorCare Inc. and four nursing homes located in[...]

Study Of Nursing Home Residents Dying With Dementia In America

November 13, 2025

Approximately 6.7 million Americans over age 65 have dementia. That number is projected to double by 2050. Nursing homes (NHs) care for a growing number of older adults living with and dying from dementia. It is estimated that half of NH residents have dementia and nearly 70% of people with adv[...]

National Bureau of Economic Research Finds Nursing Homes Strategically Respond To Inspections

September 22, 2025

Nursing Homes In The United States U.S. nursing homes housed more than 1.2 million patients in 2024 and incurred spending of $193 billion in 2022, which is equivalent to one-seventh of the national expenditures on the hospital sector and 4 percent of national medical spending. As baby boomers contin[...]

Nursing Home Operator Genesis Healthcare, Inc. Files For Bankruptcy

September 8, 2025

On July 9, 2025, Genesis Healthcare, Inc. (“Genesis”), which operates 218 nursing homes across 19 U.S. states, filed for Chapter 11 voluntary bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, listing 298 affiliates including holding companies, ancillary[...]

Iowa Federal Judge Vacates 24/7 RN Rule, Nursing Home Staffing Mandate

August 9, 2025

On June 20, 2025, a federal judge in Iowa “made a final determination that CMS lacked the authority to promulgate the HPRD [hours per resident day] requirements and 24/7 RN requirement” and therefore found “that the appropriate remedy in this context is to vacate the 24/7 RN and HP[...]

Former Owner Of Nursing Homes Throughout U.S. Sentenced To 36 Months For $38 Million Tax Fraud Scheme

June 10, 2025

A New York man was sentenced to 36 months in prison for his role in a $38 million employment tax fraud scheme involving nursing homes he owned across the country. Joseph Schwartz, 65, of Suffern, New York, previously pled guilty to two counts of an indictment charging him with willfully fa[...]

Texas Federal District Court Vacates Certain Nursing Home Staffing Mandates

June 4, 2025

Congress’s past enactments require each Medicare or Medicaid nursing home to “provide 24-hour licensed nursing services which are sufficient to meet the nursing needs of its residents” and to “use the services of a registered professional nurse for at least 8 consecutive hours a day, 7 d[...]

9 In 10 Nursing Homes Have Staffing Levels Below Expectations

May 13, 2025

The Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) issued a report on May 2, 2025 entitled, “LTCCC Alert: Nine in 10 Nursing Homes Fall Short of Expected Staffing, New Federal Data Show (Q3 2024)” in which it found, based on its analysis of the most recent payroll-based journal (PBJ) data re[...]

Delirium Still A Problem In Nursing Homes

May 8, 2025

A study published on March 17, 2025 in JAMA Network Open entitled “Persistence of Delirium in Postacute Care at Skilled Nursing Facilities” stated, in part: “Annually, more than 2 million Medicare beneficiaries are discharged from acute care hospitals to skilled nursing facilities [...]

Unlawful Nursing Home Debt Collection Practices

February 14, 2025

In 1987, Congress passed the federal Nursing Home Reform Act (NHRA) in response to public attention and a study from the Institute of Medicine. Among other things, the NHRA bans third-party financial guarantees as a condition of a resident’s admission or continued stay in a nursing home. Specifica[...]

Study Finds Nursing Homes That Upcoded Residents’ Conditions Resulted In More Preventable Conditions, More Hospitalizations, And More Deaths

December 31, 2024

The abstract to a study published in October 2024 entitled Overbilling and Killing? An Examination of the Skilled Nursing Industry states: “Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) systems that provided excess rehab therapy just above revenue thresholds quickly begin upcoding previously unidentified com[...]

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