{"id":1715,"date":"2016-01-19T09:31:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2016-01-19T09:31:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T14:31:01","slug":"the-skilled-nursing-environment-is-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1715","title":{"rendered":"The Skilled Nursing Environment is Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A continuing sea-change in the field of health care is driving a corresponding evolution in the way skilled nursing services are delivered, and that should be no surprise to anyone. Specialization, procedural complexities, and of course the rolling changes evident in overall health care policy and Medicare\/Medicaid has lead to a similar transformation in the skilled nursing landscape.\u00a0Beth Burnham Mace, chief economist and director of capital markets outreachwith the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care (NIC.), in an article on\u00a0nreionline.com, provides a recap of this transformation. <a href=\"http:\/\/nreionline.com\/seniors-housing\/what-evolution-skilled-nursing-facilities-means-you\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid\u00a0on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A continuing sea-change in the field of health care is driving a corresponding evolution in the way skilled nursing services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountable-care-organizations-aco","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}