CMS tool creating new pathways to assisted living could prove ‘a positive development for residents...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 26, 2022
A tool to help states increase long-term services and supports rebalancing could lead to more business for assisted living providers.
Why the RN visa delays? Group demands answers
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 30, 2022
A long-term care coalition is asking the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to investigate Texas visa delays for registered nurses.
Providing palliative care to wider group of people, including assisted living residents, gains bipartisan...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 24, 2022
A demonstration project to deliver palliative care no matter where an individual lives — including in assisted living communities — and earlier in the disease process has gained bipartisan support.
Expanding veterans’ access to assisted living is ‘common sense,’ associations say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 16, 2022
“Commonsense” legislation expanding access to cost-effective assisted living has gained support from the major associations representing senior living and other long-term care providers.
Bill aims to expose business, hiring practices of temporary staffing agencies
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 10, 2022
New legislation aimed at exposing the business and hiring practices of temporary staffing agencies follows long-term care industry complaints about price gouging and anti-competitive behaviors during the...
48 percent of assisted living providers may close due to workforce issues: survey
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 08, 2022
More than half (52%) of assisted living providers participating in a new survey say that their overall workforce situation has worsened since January, and 48% are concerned that they may have to close...
HHS extends timeframe for states to use federal funds to expand HCBS
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 03, 2022
States will have an additional year to use federal American Rescue Plan funds to expand home- and community-based services for Medicaid beneficiaries, the federal government announced Friday.
Senior living-led philanthropic effort raises $150,000 in Ukraine aid
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 31, 2022
Senior Living Cares, a joint campaign of senior living-associated groups and CARE, has raised more than $150,000 to help older adults in Ukraine with food, shelter and supply needs.
Still a long way to go in integrating DEI into long-term care culture, NCAL director says
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 27, 2022
Integrating diversity, equity and inclusion into a long-term care company culture is a journey, and that journey still has a long way to go, according to National Center for Assisted Living Executive Director...
National bill would require senior living operators to implement workplace violence prevention plans
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 13, 2022
Senior living and other long-term care and healthcare providers would be required to create workplace violence prevention plans to protect employees under proposed bipartisan legislation.