A watchdog agency is calling for a greater emphasis on staffing ratios during future nursing home surveys, saying CMS is missing opportunities to use information it already collects.
Keith Weikel, the former federal Medicaid overseer who spent 20-plus years as a top executive for what was once the nation’s largest nursing home chain, is being remembered as one of the industry’s leading giants. He died Tuesday in Georgia on his 85th birthday.
A newborn baby girl was named after a Louisiana nursing home after the facility’s parking lot was transformed into an impromptu delivery room for the mother, who unexpectedly went into labor while visiting a friend.
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