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Long-term care, other business groups find exclusion from federal vaccine mandate process ‘disappointing’
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 30, 2021
As the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration works to develop and issue a rule for a vaccine and testing mandate announced earlier this month by President Biden, some business...
25 governors call on feds to ‘move on’ from pandemic, end COVID-19 public health emergency
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 21, 2022
Twenty-five Republican governors have signed a letter asking President Joe Biden to end the COVID-19 public health emergency, saying “it is time we move on from the pandemic and get back to life as normal.”
Pandemic brings focus to industry policy priorities
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 23, 2021
Working to “ensure a constructive, future-focused action plan to promote smart approaches to quality in assisted living and memory care without federal regulations” is a priority for LeadingAge this...
Organization praises CMS for preserving patients’ access to home respiratory care
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Liza Berger
Mar 17, 2021
The Council for Quality Respiratory Care, a coalition of the nation’s leading home respiratory therapy providers and manufacturing companies, on Tuesday lauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
Providers receive $9 billion early holiday gift — Phase 4 Provider Relief Fund distributions
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 14, 2021
The federal government announced Tuesday morning an early holiday gift to healthcare providers hit with pandemic-related losses in the form of $9 billion in Phase 4 Provider Relief Fund distributions.
Pandemic likely to increase demand for affordable housing: NIC
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John O'Connor
Apr 16, 2020
As the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic ravages the nation’s economy, the ranks of seniors requiring affordable housing and care will escalate, warns a recent National Investment Center for Seniors Housing...
Have they lost their minds?
By
John O'Connor
May 14, 2020
We are seeing some pandemic responses that are real jaw-droppers.
Lancaster Pollard: Multiple funding sources emerging for the senior living sector
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 23, 2020
Senior living and care organizations across the country are doing noble work, and it is essential that they receive additional resources and options in this trying time, according to an article published...
Medicare, many third-party insurers to cover coronavirus testing
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Amy Novotney
Mar 10, 2020
Medicare and several leading insurers have committed to helping mitigate the costs associated with testing for and treating the novel coronavirus that has been spreading nationwide. In addition, officials...