Regional operator Majestic Care launches Pilot Six initiative to test emerging technologies across its portfolio, targeting EHR integration, predictive analytics, and digital family communication.
Author: Chaya S
Artificial intelligence adoption in nursing homes remains significantly behind other healthcare settings, with only 4.5% of facilities implementing AI tools by 2025 compared to 8.3% in ambulatory surgery centers. However, investment in the sector is accelerating as operators recognize the potential for technology to address workforce and operational challenges. The data, reported by Skilled Nursing News in December 2025, shows that while adoption rates remain low, they have grown from just 3.1% in 2023. Industry experts expect this growth to continue as more vendors develop solutions specifically designed for post-acute care environments. Several factors have slowed AI adoption in nursing…
Washington, D.C. — Nursing homes are looking at an $883 million payment increase next year after CMS finalized its 2027 rate rule on Wednesday. But the agency isn’t just handing out more cash. It’s rewriting how operators report quality data, and the industry is already split on whether the new rules help or hurt. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services locked in a 2.4% rate bump for the coming fiscal year, built on a 3.3% market basket estimate with a 0.9% productivity cut baked in. That brings the total extra funding to roughly $883 million across the sector. For…
Nursing homes across the country are quietly solving one of their biggest headaches, and the answer isn’t what most people expected. After years of leaning on expensive staffing agencies to fill shifts, a growing number of operators are finding a better path: converting temporary nurses into permanent team members. The results are showing up in staffing numbers, care quality, and the bottom line. Monarch Healthcare Management, which runs more than 46 nursing homes in Minnesota, has been ahead of this curve. The company offers scholarships, flexible scheduling, and clear career ladders to its float-pool and agency workers. It’s not charity…
Tallahassee, Florida — Florida’s nursing home industry is pleading with the federal government to halt a deportation threat that could strip roughly 35,000 Haitian workers from long-term care facilities across the state. The Florida Health Care Association, which represents 90% of the state’s nearly 700 nursing homes, sent a July 7 letter to the Department of Homeland Security asking officials to let Haitians with Temporary Protected Status continue working while they pursue lawful immigration pathways. The group warned that losing even a fraction of these caregivers would be devastating for a sector already stretched razor-thin. “Any significant reduction in the…
Washington, D.C. — The federal government is moving hundreds of surgical procedures out of hospitals, and the nation’s nursing homes are bracing for the fallout. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published its proposed 2027 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule on July 2, and tucked inside is a plan to strip 637 more services from the inpatient-only list. That list has historically confined complex procedures to hospital settings, largely because patients need at least a full day of monitored recovery. If the proposal is finalized, those surgeries could shift to outpatient centers or ambulatory surgical units. For hospitals,…
Indianapolis, Indiana — When Indiana launched PathWays for Aging in July 2024, state officials promised a streamlined Medicaid program that would deliver better care at lower cost. Two years later, Governor Michael Braun is signing legislation to kill it. The state’s mandatory managed Medicaid program for long-term care will revert to fee-for-service by July 2027, marking one of the most significant policy reversals in recent memory — and a cautionary tale for the 27 states currently experimenting with similar models. The $91 million question An independent analysis by Clifton Larson Allen found Indiana was spending $91 million annually more on…
Washington, DC — The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major immigration win on June 25, ruling that federal law blocks courts from reviewing decisions to end Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitian and Syrian workers. For nursing homes, the decision removes the legal shield protecting caregivers who in some facilities make up 8 percent or more of the entire workforce. The 6-3 ruling in Mullin v. Doe rejected arguments that the administration’s termination of TPS was motivated by unconstitutional racial animus. Justice Alito, writing for the majority, held that Homeland Security’s designation and termination decisions are largely…
Hartford, Connecticut — Connecticut nursing homes saw a sharp jump in the state’s most serious safety citations at the same time lawmakers moved to tighten oversight of who owns and controls facilities. State health officials issued 14 “immediate jeopardy” citations in the first quarter of federal fiscal 2026, up from eight in the same period a year earlier, according to data presented at an April meeting of the Nursing Home Financial Advisory Committee. Connecticut reported five such citations in the first quarter of 2024 and seven in 2023. Across all of fiscal 2025, the state logged 26 immediate jeopardy findings.…
Washington, District of Columbia — Ten nursing organizations have sued the U.S. Department of Education over a new student loan rule they say could narrow the pipeline of advanced nursing talent just as nursing homes are fighting to staff up for sicker, more complex residents. The case targets the department’s final Reimagining and Improving Student Education, or RISE, rule, which is set to take effect July 1. The lawsuit argues that the rule wrongly excludes post-baccalaureate nursing degree programs from the federal definition of “professional degree” programs. That matters because the exemption determines who can borrow above the government’s graduate…
