Hospitals must begin to view nursing homes as “equal partners” to ensure success in a unique state-federal partnership that aims to reduce costs and improve care, according to one advocate involved in expanding the program.
Frustration is surging among the low-wage workers who make up the backbone of the nursing home industry, as tens of thousands of their colleagues call out sick with Covid-19, inflaming shortages that already were at crisis levels. Hailed as
Maryland recently unveiled a website aimed at providing residents easy-to-access, up-to-date information about the quality, cost and availability of health care.