Nursing homes Archives - Wisconsin Health News

New Jersey company will take on three SSM Health long-term care facilities

by Sean Kirkby | Jul 11, 2024 | Hospitals, Long Term Care, Nursing homes, Top Stories | 0 |

SSM Health plans to transition three of its long-term care centers in Wisconsin to Complete Care, a New Jersey-based company with nine nursing homes in Wisconsin.

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Less than half of Wisconsin nursing homes meet federal staffing standards

by Tim Stumm | Jun 3, 2024 | Nursing homes, Top Stories | 0 |

Wisconsin fares better than most states when it comes to complying with new federal staffing requirements for nursing homes, but only 41 percent of its facilities meet all the mandates, according to a recent KFF study.

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Vice President Harris talks nursing home regulations, reproductive healthcare in La Crosse

by Sean Kirkby | Apr 23, 2024 | Long Term Care, Medicaid/Medicare, Nursing homes, Top Stories | 0 |

New federal nursing home regulations are essential for improving the health and safety of residents, and reproductive healthcare access will be a key issue in the November elections, Vice President Kamala Harris said Monday in La Crosse.

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Legislative package aims to help with post-acute placements

by Sean Kirkby | Feb 15, 2024 | Hospitals, Legislature, Long Term Care, Nursing homes, Top Stories | 0 |

Lawmakers are eyeing a legislative package that aims to reduce the hundreds of patients waiting in Wisconsin hospitals for post-acute care.

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Evers signs off on state’s 2023-25 budget

by Sean Kirkby | Jul 5, 2023 | Hospitals, Legislature, LGBTQ+, Medicaid/Medicare, Nursing homes, State budget, Top Stories, Veteran Health | 0 |

Gov. Tony Evers on Wednesday signed into law the state’s 2023-25 budget, leaving intact its Medicaid rate increases and using his veto authority to strike a proposal barring Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.

JFC votes to provide additional dollars to state’s veterans homes

by Sean Kirkby | May 31, 2023 | Infrastructure, Jobs, Mental Health, Nursing homes, Rural Health, State budget, Top Stories, Workforce | 0 |

Joint Finance Committee members voted last week to provide additional dollars to the state’s three nursing homes for veterans through the 2023-25 budget.

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Institute for Reforming Government unveils bevy of healthcare policy options

by Sean Kirkby | Apr 7, 2023 | ACA, Hospitals, Jobs, Medicaid/Medicare, Nursing homes, On The Record, Public Health, Top Stories | 0 |

A Wisconsin conservative think tank recently released a bevy of health policy recommendations, including a call to shift childless adults from Medicaid to the Affordable Care Act marketplace.

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WHA: Hospital job vacancy rate neared double digits in 2021

by Sean Kirkby | Mar 28, 2023 | Hospitals, Jobs, Legislature, Nursing homes, Top Stories, Workforce | 0 |

The overall hospital job vacancy rate in Wisconsin almost reached double digits at the end of September 2021, according to a report released by the Wisconsin Hospital Association Tuesday.

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GOP lawmakers once again vow to overhaul Evers’ budget

by Sean Kirkby | Feb 16, 2023 | Abortion, ACA, Education, Long Term Care, Medicaid/Medicare, Mental Health, Nursing homes, Opioids, Prescription Drugs, State budget, Top Stories | 0 |

Republican lawmakers on Wednesday vowed to scrap Gov. Tony Evers’ 2023-25 budget and write their own, after the governor called for Medicaid expansion and a paid family and medical leave program.

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Medicaid implements new rate setting model for nursing homes

by Tim Stumm | Nov 17, 2022 | Nursing homes, Top Stories | 0 |

Medicaid will cover an average of 91 percent of nursing homes’ cost of providing care for its members in fiscal year 2023, up from 77 percent in fiscal year 2022, the Department of Health Services said Wednesday.

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LeadingAge Wisconsin’s Sauer calls for funding, regulatory reform to fix long-term care workforce crisis

by Sean Kirkby | Aug 12, 2022 | Long Term Care, Nursing homes, On The Record, Top Stories | 0 |

Wisconsin’s long-term care workforce shortage is intensifying, according to a new report by four associations representing long-term care providers.

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Analysis: 87 percent of Wisconsin nursing home workers vaccinated

by Tim Stumm | May 26, 2022 | Nursing homes, Top Stories | 0 |

Eighty-seven percent of nursing home workers in Wisconsin are vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a recent analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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