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Grand Marais provider asks legislature to reclassify part of nursing home as hospital to restore reimbursements
Summary
North Shore Health CEO Kimber Rolstead testified on HF1912 seeking a legislative change to reclassify half of a nursing home unit as hospital swing-bed care to increase Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement and keep the only skilled nursing facility in Cook County open.
Representative Roger Scribe presented House File 1912 and called Kimber Rolstead, CEO and administrator of North Shore Health in Grand Marais, to testify about financial losses at the hospital and attached nursing home.
Rolstead told the committee the nursing home has operated at a steady loss for decades — averaging about $1.5 million annually and exceeding $2 million in the current year — and that reimbursement rules force cost shifting between hospital and nursing-home cost centers. She asked the committee for a…
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