{"id":20800,"date":"2023-01-25T07:45:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20800"},"modified":"2023-01-25T07:46:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:46:10","slug":"wave-of-rural-nursing-home-closures-grows-amid-staffing-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20800","title":{"rendered":"Wave of Rural Nursing Home Closures Grows Amid Staffing Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Tony Leys for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WAUKON, Iowa \u2014 Marjorie Kruger was stunned to learn last fall that she would have to leave the nursing home where she\u2019d lived comfortably for six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Good Samaritan Society facility in Postville, Iowa, would close, administrators told Kruger and 38 other residents in September. The facility joined a growing list of nursing homes being shuttered nationwide, especially in rural areas.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/wave-of-rural-nursing-home-closures-grows-amid-staffing-crunch\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/wave-of-rural-nursing-home-closures-grows-amid-staffing-crunch\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Tony Leys for Kaiser Health News) WAUKON, Iowa \u2014 Marjorie Kruger was stunned to learn last fall that she<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,32,16,24],"tags":[92,67,250,135,410],"class_list":["post-20800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-cms","category-medicaid","category-nursing-homes","tag-aging","tag-medicaid","tag-nursing-home-closures","tag-nursing-homes","tag-rural-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20800","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20802,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20800\/revisions\/20802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}