6+ mon, 2+ day ago (410+ words) McKnight's Long-Term Care News took home the highest honor for industry news coverage Tuesday in a top national journalism contest for business media. The Gold Award of Excellence in the Azbees competition honors the print magazine's in-depth coverage of challenges the nursing home sector faced in 2024. The announcement was made during a national, online awards ceremony hosted by the American Society of Business Publication Editors. ASBPE judges evaluated six feature-length articles from McKnight's, covering topics including the impending nursing home staffing mandate, salary trends, the government's increasing interest in criminalizing nursing home misdeeds, and an annual Mood of the Market package. "Rural Peril," a series examining threats to rural nursing homes, was also included. Senior Editor Kimberly Marselas wrote each of the articles, with Senior Art Director Monica Pizzi and Graphic Designer Aminah Beg responsible for page design and graphic…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago (53+ words) Value-based care" (VBC) is one of the most frequently cited goals in U.S. healthcare reform " yet its meaning remains frustratingly vague and often contradictory. We hear that value-based care is ... Most recent articles by Eugene Gonsiorek Want to read more? Please login or register first to view this content....

4+ mon, 3+ week ago (528+ words) Summer vacations, particularly around the July 4th holiday, are prime time for settling in with a good read. This year, there may be nothing better for provider eyes than a unique new publication out of Arizona. The state's nickname is the Valley of the Sun, though some equate it to basically living on the sun at certain unbearable times. And those dangerous times are increasing, research shows." Extreme heat events in Arizona are rising from the 73 days over 100 degrees in 2023 (the year of 31 days in a row over 110 degrees). Projections forecast there will be 117 of those 100-plus days by 2030." But heat dangers, which imperil the senior population most of all, aren't just an Arizona thing. Extreme heat has claimed more lives than any other extreme weather condition in the US " outranking hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding and earthquakes. That's what makes the Emergency…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago (847+ words) In the years since, Herb has become one of the most trusted voices in aging and long-term care. Whether covering national policy from Washington or sharing deeply human stories from Rhode Island, he's ... I first met Herb Weiss in Washington, more than three decades ago. At the time, I was a wide-eyed newbie reporter trying to wrap my head around two matters my professors had never mentioned: long-term care and B2B journalism. I was also quite unsure of how " or even whether " I would fit in. Herb, on the other hand, already knew exactly where he belonged " at the intersection of policy, aging and storytelling. He had a gift for cutting through the noise and getting to what really mattered: people, and the systems that shape their lives as they grow older. In the years since, Herb has become one of…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago (471+ words) The average payment for senior care liability claims doubled in the decade ending in 2024, with skilled nursing and other higher-acuity settings facing the highest increases. Liberty Mutual highlighted courtroom tactics as one reason for the steep rise in its recent 2025 senior care claims study." "Factors contributing to the increase in average indemnity payments include legal system abuse and plaintiffs" counsel use of reptile theory courtroom tactics to inflame the jury," the report noted. "By focusing on the providers" chronic understaffing and payment of low employee wages, plaintiffs claim gross negligence in an effort to circumvent damage caps." While some states are targeting tort reform as a result, the insurance company offered other insights about the current market and where providers can make improvements to protect themselves from incidents, claims and liability. Its study analyzed 2,500 closed claims reported under Liberty Mutual…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago (593+ words) Everyone has heard about someone who lost their life's savings to the high cost of long-term care. The media is full of such stories. KFF Health News and the New York Times highlighted many in their Dying Broke series." Nevertheless, I'd like to ask senior living operators and investors these questions. How often do you see catastrophic LTC spend down occur among your clientele? Is that outcome widespread or only anecdotal? Have you ever seen hard evidence that LTC spending down into impoverishment is commonplace? I've followed the literature on Medicaid financial eligibility and LTC spend down for decades. Over the years, many scholars of fine repute have published extremely high estimates of personal out-of-pocket LTC spending. A few examples follow. Let's consider whether they are valid. Kemper, Komisar, and Alecxih claimed in 2005 that 45% of" LTC expenditures were "uninsured private…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago (807+ words) Approximately 24% of respondents to a recent survey who are eligible for benefits where they work said they had access to long-term care insurance there, and 9% of those employees said they had enrolled in that insurance. For the Employee Long-Term Care Survey, fielded late last year by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, the institute questioned 2,445 workers aged 20 to 74 regarding their awareness of, access to and perspectives on long-term care financing. The results were published in an issue brief earlier this year and discussed in a webinar on Tuesday. Despite long-term care insurance availability or enrollment realities, 40% of respondents said they expect to need some form of long-term care in the future themselves, yet only 23% of the survey's participants said they know how to access such care. Workers looking to purchase long-term care insurance on their own said that the cost of…...