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 […]
Nursing Home Closures – Act to Protect Your Loved One
We noticed that page views for the nursing home owner page for Makhlouf Suissa spiked in December to be one of our most popular pages. It turns out that Makhlouf had suddenly closed one of the nursing homes he operates in St. Louis, Northview Village. (Check out coverage of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Does Anyone Want a Badge from NursingHomeDatabase.com for Their Website?
Are you a skilled nursing home provider looking to showcase your top performing status? Maybe we can help. We’ve noticed that many companies have been referring to our lists of top performing health care companies in their press releases and marketing materials. And now, we’re considering creating a badge that […]
Finding Information about Nursing Home Owners and Managers
As we were putting together the various pages related to the data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (“CMS”), we did not know what information would be interesting for people. We’ve tried to monitor what people click on and note what concerns people raise when they contact us. One […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]