Some disturbing news appeared last week in The Wall Street Journal.
The highly respected newspaper found that nursing homes are evicting
long-term, frail residents—many on Medicaid—to make room for short-stay
residents.
This timely information (See more at http://www.mcknights.com/News-report-Illegal-nursing-home-evictions-on-the-rise/article/113572/)
comes as nursing homes are openly courting the short-stay population.
These residents—who typically come for rehabilitation or treatment and
stay for 30 days or less—are on Medicare, which, pays much more per day
to nursing homes than Medicaid.
The industry, which reportedly argued that evictions are not common,
cannot deny it is going out of its way to woo this lucrative group. My
InnerView, a research company that performs many long-term care
surveys, recently published a story called “The Changing Landscape from
long term care to short-term stay: What are your short-stay customers
saying?” It appears on the Web site of Provider magazine, the journal
of the American Health Care Association, the largest association of
nursing homes. (You can see it at www.providermagazine.com.)
The article stresses the need to meet short-term residents’
expectations as a way to enhance facilities’ reputations in their
communities and improve their abilities to attract short-stay
admissions.
“As the trend to shorter stays, more acute patients, and more
admissions and discharges continues to grow, providers’ reliance on
this population for their success becomes ever more important,”
according to the article, which was written by Brad Shiverick, chief
quality officer for My InnerView
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