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.
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.
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.
Lawmakers are eyeing a legislative package that aims to reduce the hundreds of patients waiting in Wisconsin hospitals for post-acute care.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wisconsin’s long-term care workforce shortage is intensifying, according to a new report by four associations representing long-term care providers.
Eighty-seven percent of nursing home workers in Wisconsin are vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a recent analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
