Tag: Nursing homes

The state's health-care workforce is recovering unevenly from the pandemic, with persistently lower employment levels in some areas and robust growth in others. This mixed patt Read More

As Governor Hochul calls for spending restraint next year, influential hospital lobbyists are pushing what could be the costliest budget request ever floated in Albany. In a , Read More

Last week Governor Hochul answered one big question about her Commission on the Future of Health Care – the names of its members – but left a fundamental mystery unresolved:  Read More

As the long-time top aide to former Governor Andrew Cuomo, Melissa DeRosa ought to have useful information to share about the state's pandemic response – especially about what went wrong and how the state could be be Read More

Nursing homes that are struggling – and mostly failing – to comply with the state's two-year-old minimum staffing law would face even stiffer hiring challenges under newly proposed federal standards. Read More

Nearly half of New York's nursing homes would be effectively exempted from a two-year-old minimum spending law under terms of a rollback passed by state lawmakers this week. En Read More

(This post has been updated to correct errors.) Albany's newly enacted budget appears to increase the state share of Medicaid spending by $4.2 billion or 13 percent, c Read More

Friday's announcement of an amended labor contract for New York City-area hospitals and nursing homes sends a contradictory message about the financial condition of the state's health-care industry. Read More