The for-profit assisted-living industry came under the harsh spotlight of PBS' “Frontline” investigators Tuesday night as the news program took Seattle-based Emeritus Corp. to task for a number of deaths and injuries involving residents with dementia at Emeritus facilities across the country.
Emeritus, which was founded in 1983 and has 483 facilities around the country, is the one of the country's biggest assisted-living operators.
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The American Nurses Association wants the federal government to require insurers selling plans on state insurance exchanges to have at least a certain percentage of advanced practice registered nurses in their provider networks.
The ANA proposed the minimum level would be equal to 10% of the number of APRNs who independently bill Medicare Part B in a state.
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Highmark's turn to try to stanch losses at Pittsburgh's West Penn Allegheny Health System has begun.
Roughly 260 workers at the health system were laid off today and another 200 vacant jobs were eliminated. The four-hospital system, the hub of Highmark's new eight-hospital Allegheny Health Network, has hemorrhaged cash and lost patients in recent years. Now the system must shrink accordingly, said Dan Laurent, an Allegheny Health Network spokesman.
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A major healthcare provider in the Denver area announced it was eliminating 300 jobs, but then a major healthcare payer announced it was adding an equal number of new positions.
Denver Health announced this week it would eliminate 300 jobs in an effort to save $18 million over 12 months. On July 18, just as the dust was settling, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Colorado said it was adding 300 jobs at its Denver office “as part of a comprehensive effort to support its growing business.”
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There's been a lot of turnover at LSU Health Care Services, the Louisiana public hospital system headquartered in Baton Rouge.
Not only has the system's top administrator resigned, but it turns out more than 40% of the state's 3,805 layoffs for the fiscal year that ended in June came from Louisiana State University-affiliated hospitals.
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Healthcare fraud may be growing, but the number of fraud cops who work to stop it is shrinking.
The Center for Public Integrity reports that HHS' Office of the Inspector General, which generates an $8 return for every dollar invested in battling fraud, is shedding staff members by the hundreds because of recent budget cuts.
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Job cuts in healthcare are hardly rare these days, but St. Vincent Health's newly announced layoffs in Indiana will certainly grab some eyeballs.
St. Vincent, a Roman Catholic provider and part of St. Louis-based Ascension Health Alliance, announced it would cut 865 jobs, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal.
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