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What $285,000 Can Buy You in America: Medical Costs for Retirees in 2019

Health Populi

Carving out the $285K for medical spending, that would leave this wealth-saving couple a net of $79,200 to spend on everything else in retirement: housing, food, utilities…oh, and long-term care. ” And vice versa — they’re one and the same. ” And vice versa — they’re one and the same.

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Caring for Patients with Serious Illness: Insights from Kristofer Smith

Bill of Health

Ultimately, the demands of my great grandmother, as her illnesses progressed, became so much that we couldn’t keep her at home. This wonderful and fiercely independent person who never wanted to live in a facility, spent the last year of life in a nursing home.

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Struggles Over Care Will Shape the Future of Work

Bill of Health

The future of work and of aging will be shaped by struggles over care from both giving and receiving ends, perhaps against those profiting in between. spread between nursing homes. These facilities, like most nursing homes, are for-profit businesses that pad their margins by cutting labor costs.

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Biden Pledges Better Nursing Home Care, but He Likely Won’t Fast-Track It

Kaiser Health News

President Joe Biden’s top Medicare official suggested Wednesday that forthcoming rules to bolster nursing home staffing won’t be issued under a mechanism, known as interim final rules, that would allow regulations to take effect more or less immediately. 30, amounting to at least 23% of all U.S.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

News & World Report rankings Tennessee, Kentucky ranked among top 10 health crisis hotspots in US, report says They didnt care. in FY 2024 OSF HealthCare CEO to retire OSF hospital names new president Oversight of charged Illinois healthcare workers limited: Report Panorama Summit Orthopedics joins CommonSpirit State Sen.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Vincent Parkview Health’s ASC strategy: 2 updates Indiana hospital margins lag behind nation, with some budgets in the red Report shows Indiana hospitals lost more than $700 million in income in 2023 Two Indiana Hospitals Receive a “D” in Patient Safety Franciscan Health to partner with nonprofits Beacon Health System receives $5.4M

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Health Provider News – March 11, 2022

Hall Render

How the Senate’s Cyber Bill Could Affect Health Sector. Providers happy nursing homes are among White House’s top priorities but disheartened at approach. OSHA doubles down on long-term care workplace inspections, violations enforce. State health officer reflects on progress 2 years into pandemic. CALIFORNIA.