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What a Petersen Health Care Bankruptcy Could Mean for You

On February 16, 2024, Bloomberg reported that Petersen Health Care a major owner and operator of assisted living and skilled nursing facilities is preparing to file bankruptcy. According to our analysis, Pedersen is one of the largest owner/operators of skilled nursing facilities in the United States with 63 known skilled […]

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Nursing Home Analysis

Having seen a lot of news about the quality of nursing home care recently, we’ve developed at series of analytical reports that look at different aspects of nursing home care. This includes the number of homes and beds, staffing levels, COVID-19 infection levels, and state by state analysis. We see […]

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New Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Requirements

On September 1, 2023 the US Department for Health and Human Services announced new minimum staffing standards for US nursing homes (see press release from CMS). The proposals comes more than a year after President Biden mentioned them in the 2022 State of the Union address and despite significant concerns […]

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Trouble From Inspection Backlog

We noticed and have been warning about the backlog in nursing home inspections for a few years. Take a look at this page showing a graph of the delinquency and our blog article from 2021. Now Newsweek recently published an article showing the human toll this backlog is causing. Here […]

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What To Do When Someone Is In a Nursing Home

At some point in your life, it’s likely that you will have a friend or family member who will reside in a nursing home.  This can be a very traumatic experience both for the person in the nursing home and for friends and family.  Here are some items to consider […]

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The State of Data

Recently we decided to augment the data that was have on skilled nursing homes by bringing in data provided by the individual states. This project began as an attempt to better understand the data that is published by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (“CMS”) and nearly all the data […]

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What Home Health Care is Covered by Medicare

If you have read any of my blog entries, you will see that I like home health care. I think taking care of patients in their home is generally a better and less expensive way to deliver needed care. Patients are more relaxed at home and having care come to […]