Regional Health Properties’ compliance plan accepted by stock exchange
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 10, 2023
Atlanta-based Regional Health Properties’s plan to regain compliance with the New York Stock Exchange’s continued listing standards had been accepted, the company announced this week. RHE now has until...
Eleventh hour spending bill includes $117 billion for HHS
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 26, 2024
A $1.2 trillion spending bill approved by the Senate early Saturday morning includes $117 billion for Department of Health and Human Services operations. This sum allocates $4.1 billion for the administrative...
State Supreme Court re-examines 8-year-old nursing home class action lawsuit
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 06, 2023
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday reopened a nearly decade-old class action lawsuit against a nursing home provider after the plaintiffs claimed that Judge Timothy Fox “repeatedly failed to follow...
K4Connect raises $8.9M from investors in latest funding round
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 17, 2023
Morrisville, NC-based K4Connect has raised $8.9 million from 14 investors, according to a Thursday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commiss
Actions & Transactions, July 18
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 18, 2024
Capital Funding Group closes $23.6 million for refinancing of Delaware SNF … Carnegie at Washingtonian Center, a Kisco Signature community, begins business operations ahead of grand opening … Kaiser...
Supreme Court expands employers’ requirements for religious accommodations
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 30, 2023
How far must an employer go to accommodate a workers’ religious practices? The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an employer’s financial hardship must be more than a minimal one to deny a worker time...
Proposed legislation would restore worker tax cuts, support unionization efforts
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 13, 2023
Democrat senators introduced two bills Thursday that they claim will make the tax code fairer for workers. The bills aim to ease workers’ tax burden and crack down on corporate anti-union practices
HUD takes ‘tremendous step forward’ with funding to promote ‘green’ affordable housing retrofits
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 15, 2023
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is making new funding available to help Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program and other multifamily housing owners improve energy or water...
Green House introduces waiver to allow providers to deviate from traditional small home model
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 18, 2022
The Green House Project, in partnership with the Pioneer Network, has created a waiver as part of an expanded trademark process that will allow providers to adjust traditional Green House small home requirements...
Federal government boosts support of HCBS, releases worker registry guidance
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 13, 2023
When the American Rescue Plan Act was passed in 2021, home- and community-based services were estimated to receive $12 billion. Now, $37 billion is now being used for HCBS across the country in all 50...