The top long-term care stories of 2024

The top long-term care stories of 2024 
McKnights Long-Term Care News; by James M. Berklan; 12/20/24 
Workforce issues dominated the long-term care provider landscape in 2024 — but in far more ways than just coping with the finalization of the nation’s first-ever nursing home staffing mandate. As new legal and political winds may eventually push that controversial regulation off providers’ desks anyway, it was clearly apparent this year that McKnight’s Long-Term Care News readers’ interests span a wide array of personnel and workplace issues. Below are the top stories, topics and issues that our readers showed they were most intrigued about when it came to doing their jobs better, and about the sector in which they spend so much daily energy.

• Minimum staffing proposal gets even tougher, may soon become moot ...
• Nursing home owners attract hot spotlight ...
• Load of new survey changes sends providers scrambling ...
• A 4.2% pay hike — and more ways to be punished ...
• Dire plight of rural nursing homes put in focus ...
• ‘Gun-packing’ step-mother fuels Life Care Center takeover drama ...
• Nursing home employee nearly assassinates Trump ...
• Nurse agencies must pay for gouging providers ...
• Among the other big story lines ...