Skilled Nursing News, Dec. 10, 2025: Associations including the American Health Care Association and National Centers for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) have long asked for relief from the revalidation process, given the many difficulties faced during the process.
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CMS SET TO SUSPEND NURSING HOME MEDICARE REVALIDATION PROCESS INDEFINITELY
McKnight’s LTC News, Dec. 9, 2025: This is the fourth postponement of a deadline for nursing home owners to provide newly expanded, complicated ownership and business relationship information.
REPEAL OF MINIMUM STAFFING RULE DOESN’T FIX SENIOR LIVING STAFFING ISSUES
McKnight’s Senior Living, Dec. 4, 2025: “Smart policies and sustained funding are essential to ensure adequate numbers of trained and qualified nurse aides, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and other caregivers who serve older adults across the aging services continuum…”
HHS REPEALS NURSING HOME STAFFING RULE PROVISIONS
McKnight’s LTC, Dec. 2, 2025: The move follows months of legal and legislative challenges, which had already rendered hourly staffing and registered nurse requirements moot.
THEY NEED A VENTILATOR TO STAY ALIVE. GETTING ONE CAN BE A NIGHTMARE.
KFF Health News, Dec. 2, 2025: Only 347 of the nation’s roughly 14,750 nursing homes have specialized units dedicated to people on ventilators, a KFF Health News analysis of federal data shows.
CMS BEGINS UPDATING NURSING HOME CARE COMPARE RATINGS
Skilled Nursing News, Nov. 20, 2025: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began refreshing the nursing home Care Compare ratings Thursday after a pause following the government shutdown.
CMS QUALITY MEASURE HINDERING ACCESS TO DEMENTIA TREATMENTS
McKnight’s LTC News, Nov. 19, 2025: The white paper, published by Manatt Health with support from the Alliance for Aging Research, argues that the 13-year-old Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services measure of antipsychotic use among long-stay residents is discouraging use of needed medications.
NURSING HOMES SINGLED OUT IN ANNUAL JUSTICE REPORT ON ELDER ABUSE
McKnight’s LTC News, Nov. 18, 2025: The priority Justice Department officials are putting on “ensuring patient safety and … stopping fraud, waste, and abuse” in nursing homes could serve as notice to providers that the department intends to continue pursuing cases against facilities…
QUALITY STILL THE “STAKE IN THE GROUND” AS NURSING HOME OPERATORS TACKLE DINING, STAFFING AND REIMBURSEMENT ISSUES
Skilled Nursing News, Nov. 11, 2025: “Creating a welcoming, social dining environment plays a vital role in residents’ overall quality of life and healing…”
PREPARE FOR MDS VALIDATION AUDITS AS SHUTDOWN COMES TO CLOSE
McKnight’s LTC News: Nov. 11, 2025: Providers who submit all of the records requested will be considered in compliance, while those who do not will be notified of noncompliance and could face a 2% reduction in their annual payment update.