Things are tough all over rural America for nursing homes recovering from losing lots of paying customers to coronavirus and now struggling even more than…
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An eager reader turns my attention to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Covid-19 Nursing Home Dataset, and I get to spend my waking…
Representative Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) has a lot of predictable right-wing horsehockey in his bucket of bills. But he also has a couple of bills…
Several days ago, I mentioned AARP’s maps showing that South Dakota has the worst rates of confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths among nursing home residents…
In normal times, if seventeen residents of one nursing home died in less than a month from some preventable malady—botulism, food poisoning, whatever—we’d be freaking…
A bunch of finance guys from Chicago now own the sixteen South Dakota nursing homes that remain open from the Skyline Healthcare debacle. Cascade Capital…
In a sign of the increasing momentum and cross-partisan appeal of my petition drives, Representative Carl Perry (R-3/Aberdeen) signed the HB 1094 Referendum petition this…
Governor Kristi Noem’s Next Big Thing certainly isn’t the number of nursing homes serving our old folks. Covington Care and Rehab in Sioux Falls announced…
While I’m digging through Rep. Goodwin’s ramblings, I am pleased to find that, in a way, Rep. Goodwin seems to support something like the estate…
To beat the impending blizzard, the Legislature convened just after midnight, passed a 4.9-billion-dollar budget that most of them had not read, and adjourned at 3…