Connecticut

Connecticut may soon be left with a single nursing home ventilator unit if a Superior Court judge approves a request from the state to close a facility that has been in receivership since 2019. 

Lawmakers in Connecticut appear ready to toughen their state’s nursing home staffing minimum next year, even before they have fully tested a 3.0 hours per-day requirement currently in play.

Connecticut has new transparency rules for nursing home owners and will require a “plain language” explanation of how Medicaid rates are set. 

A 5-star, three-generation family owned nursing home just outside Connecticut’s capital was granted the right to close Friday. It’s a move the owner pursued as the state embarked on a campaign to eliminate...

Connecticut nursing home files petition to close after 50 years … Backlogged state investigations allowed nurse suspected of drug diversion to take another nursing home job … Federal guardianship bill...

MASSACHUSETTS — Four nursing homes in the same county announced they would close by June, chased out of the state by a “reconfiguring” reform meant to improve the quality of care.

Attorney General seeks authority to recover state funds from ‘seriously deficient’ nursing homes … CMS Proposes expanded mobility device coverage … AARP targets NY nursing home ombudsman program...

Many states’ nursing facilities are facing extremely difficult operating conditions, but Connecticut’s nursing homes are staring down double barrels that could make it increasingly hard for them to...

The challenger to unseat incumbent Gov. Kristi Noem (R) in South Dakota made nursing home reform his focus last week at a campaign stop in front of a new nursing home.

Union members representing more than 400 nursing home workers at five Connecticut are threatening to strike next week over wages, retirement benefits and “unfair labor practices.”