Ten years after a landmark court case determined patients do not need to regain function to maintain access to skilled nursing care and therapy services, advocates warn that elderly patients and those with disabilities continue to be denied care based on a non-existent “improvement standard.”
Skilled nursing operators were happily surprised in September with an early draft of MDS revisions, but ever since it’s been a slog getting more information.
The 2022 Mood of the Markey survey found inflation has most affected costs for nurses and other labor over the last year, but it also is forcing facilities many to close wings, restrict admissions and put off needed construction.