Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: The Upside of Compliance Plans for Senior Care Facilities
Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: Is Your Senior Care Facility Ready for Day One (and Two) of a Certification or Complaint Survey?
Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: Agency Investigations of Senior Care Facilities
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice - Reimbursement Audits and Appeals
How Should We Celebrate Elder Law Month?
Long-Term Care Investigations: Critical Steps To Mitigate Risk and Protect Your Residents, Staff and Reputation
K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care - Part III
K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care - Part II
K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care
K&L Gates Triage: Reading the Fine Print: A Closer Look at the Proposed Regulation over Arbitration Clauses in Long-Term Care Resident Agreements
Please join us for the 9th Annual Nashville Healthcare Fraud Conference hosted by Bass, Berry & Sims and the Tennessee Hospital Association. Eligible for more than seven hours of CLE credit (including ethics), this...more
Many long-term care residents live in Missouri nursing homes for years. But occasionally circumstances may change such that it is no longer appropriate for the resident to continue to reside at the facility. In certain cases,...more
According to President Biden's recently published column, the Administration's proposed rule, published on September 6, 2023, mandating that nursing homes begin to staff facilities so that registered nurses (RNs) and nurse...more
Williams Mullen’s Strategies for Senior Care video series explores how owners, administrators, and directors of assisted living facilities (ALFs), skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), and continuing care retirement communities...more
News Briefs - Insurers Ignoring Rulings to Pay Surprise Bills, Doctors Say -Insurers are sometimes ignoring rulings to pay providers, or failing to pay them in full, under the arbitration system established by the new federal...more
Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference to...more
Does legislation enacted pursuant to Congress’s Spending Clause power give rise to rights privately enforceable via 42 U.S.C. § 1983? If so, do provisions regarding medication and transfer in the Federal Nursing Home Reform...more
F865: QAPI Program/Plan, Disclosure/Good Faith Attempt - Noncompliance at deficiency tag F865 will be cited if surveyors find that a facility has not implemented and/or maintained a comprehensive QAPI program that addresses...more
F622: Transfer and Discharge Requirements - CMS has placed a new focus on ensuring that residents remain in the facility of their choosing. CMS does this in two ways: 1) by emphasizing that a resident has a "right" to remain...more
Presenters Jonathan Berkowitz of Goldberg Segalla, LLP and Annemari Cooley of Smith & Nephew will explain why current medical standards regarding “unavoidable” skin breakdown and Federal quality of care regulations impose a...more
General and specialty compliance training from the comfort of your home or office! HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide practitioners with virtual compliance training that includes updates on the...more
On Thursday, January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinions in each of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) vaccination...more
On October 6, 2021, California Governor Newson signed Assembly Bill No. 749, which, among other things, established minimum training requirements for medical directors of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). There was...more
On August 18, 2021, President Biden announced that he would use the regulatory authority of the Executive Branch to increase the COVID-19 vaccination rate among nursing home workers. President Biden directed the Department of...more
On March 3, 2020, then-Attorney General William Barr announced the Department of Justice’s National Nursing Home Initiative, which aimed to “bring justice to those owners and operators who have profited at the expense of...more
On April 7, 2021, Commissioner Toomey of the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) issued an Administrative Order that provides new reopening guidance for long-term care facilities, which includes intermediate care...more
Effective July 1, 2021, Administrators of Assisted Living Communities and Administrators of Personal Care Homes with twenty-five (25) beds or more must hold licenses issued by the Georgia State Board of Long-Term Care...more
Although the General Assembly was in adjournment today, legislative committees were hard at work. With less than 24 hours remaining for propositions to emerge from committee in the Senate and still be considered this year,...more
For residents of nursing homes and their loved ones, new and disturbing information has come out on long-term care facilities’ persistent failure to safeguard the vulnerable from the coronavirus that has killed tens of...more
Maryland officials have wrapped up pandemic-prompted inspections of 226 nursing homes with a pricey rebuke to long-term care facilities that have failed still to safeguard the elderly, sick, and injured from Covid-19, putting...more
Editor’s Note: COVID-19 has reaped a horrific toll on our nation’s 2.5 million nursing home residents and their families. People living in nursing homes make up less than 1 percent of the U.S. population yet account for...more
As of July 30, 2020, at least 62,000 residents and employees of nursing homes and long-term care facilities have died in the United States as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and over 300,000 more have been infected with the...more
Fast moving, continuous coverage, and goal-oriented! It sounds like football, but hopefully this describes your physician’s practice and their dedication to your care. With hopes of football right around the corner, follow me...more
In this week’s episode, Myla Reizen and Paris Petranis are joined again by Bruce Spurlock, President and CEO of Cynosure Health, and Judi Coombe, a Senior Operations Consultant at Ansell Strategic, to continue their...more