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Where will patients go when nursing homes close? Consider this uncomfortable possibility

LPN Kim Neuhalfen is scared about what the future holds. Mostly for her patients, sure, but also for the setting that she’s come to love in some ways more than all the others. ....

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'Crying wolf' or dying breed? Incentives often ignore plight of rural skilled nursing operators

As hundreds of nursing homes have shuttered in the last few years, the very strategies meant to prop up the sector have often left the most isolated, resource-strapped facilities with nothing gained. ....

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Pressing questions about rural telehealth access and investments put innovation in danger

Questions remain about how much providers will be able to rely on telehealth, remote monitoring and other technologies to come in the years ahead and whether the government will make the needed legal, regulatory and reimbursement changes needed to sustain services. ....

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Empty beds, untenable staffing needs push the nation's rural nursing homes closer to the brink

Like many of its rural neighbors, Good Samaritan Society-Bloomfield is teetering between fulfilling its vital community role and succumbing to the financial pressures that come with operating in a small town. ....

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