Assisted living providers can glean best practices from a report outlining state efforts to support home- and community-based service workers using federal COVID-19 relief dollars, according to one of...
Proposal aims to prevent temporary staffing agencies from ‘gouging’ long-term care providers
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 16, 2021
Pennsylvania lawmakers plan to introduce legislation as early as this week to set maximum rates that temporary staffing agency personnel can charge, to end a practice of “gouging” the state Medicaid...
Vaccine mandate a ‘game-changer’: Good Samaritan CEO
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 09, 2021
After a resurgence of COVID-19 cases among staff and residents in its senior living and care communities over the summer, and rumblings about another variant on the horizon, Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan...
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...
Compassion, empathy, integrity and humility make Enlivant ‘Great Place to Work,’ CEO says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 04, 2021
Guill is optimistic about the future of senior living and care.
Arizona’s move to strip assisted licensing body of duties ‘greatly concerning’ to senior living...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 06, 2021
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is threatening to strip the state licensing body for assisted living communities of its responsibilities and transfer them to another department — a move one senior living association...
60 percent of ‘culture change’ nursing homes able to maintain most measures during pandemic:...
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 31, 2022
Many nursing homes that were operating under the principles of culture change before the COVID-19 pandemic have been able to maintain or even expand their efforts to focus on resident quality of life and...
Don’t overlook benefits of assisted living when thinking about HCBS, industry tells Congress
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 20, 2021
Medicaid home- and community-based services expansion, workforce development, immigration reform and long-term care financing are top of mind for senior living industry leaders as they prod U.S. House...
‘Moving fast and changing every minute’: COVID-19 brings increased policy attention to long-term...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 23, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has challenged the aging services industry to imagine the unimaginable, including increased attention from policymakers, according to Ruth Katz, LeadingAge senior vice president...
COVID-19 linked to ‘substantial cost increases’ in assisted living: survey
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 03, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to substantial eldercare cost hikes, especially for assisted living and in-home care. That’s according to the results of Genworth’s 2020 Cost of Care Survey, announced...