OnPointe Health CEO The COVID-19 crisis has broken the cracks in the nation’s long-term care infrastructure wide open. Skilled Nursing News had an interview with Eric Tanner, CEO of OnPointe Health. Tanner says it is time to rethink the model. “We’re seeing it across the United States, across the world: The model is fundamentally broken,”
Pilot Program McKnight’s reported that SavaSeniorCare successfully recovered more than 1,000 residents with COVID-19. The success was a result of a partnership with a physician group. The partnership started with the Geriatric Administrative Provider Services (GAPs) physician group in May to help treat COVID-19 residents. The GAPs physicians acted as COVID-19 specialists. They assisted the
Nontraditional Nursing Homes The Buffalo News Editorial Board published an opinion piece about the future of the nursing home industry. They need to rethink after the tragic coronavirus pandemic. The institutional design of most nursing homes prevents infection control and quality of care. As an attorney who litigates nursing home cases, the editorial interested me.
Systemic Short-Staffing NPR had a fantastic article about the nursing home industry’s pleas for additional bailout money. We cannot continue to allow the waste, fraud, and abuse. Nursing homes were unprepared and overwhelmed by the coronavirus. Recent studies show that for-profit owners recklessly endangered residents by cutting corners while siphoning taxpayer money to owner/operators, related