States can help ensure that their Medicaid long-term services and supports programs are person-centered by measuring access and consumer satisfaction before and after they transition from a fee-for-service...
Assisted living operator agrees to pay $162,500 to settle discrimination allegations
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Lois A. Bowers
May 11, 2017
An assisted living community operator and four communities have agreed to pay a total of $162,500 to settle a lawsuit alleging that the communities discriminated against the deaf by not providing sign...
Attorneys general seek to expand search for Medicaid abuse and neglect cases
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Lois A. Bowers
May 11, 2017
Thirty-eight attorneys general asked Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, M.D., Wednesday for a policy change that would allow them to investigate and prosecute a wider range of abuse and neglect...
Addressing foot pain may help prevent falls, hospitalizations
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Lois A. Bowers
May 10, 2017
Addressing foot pain in older adults may lead to significantly fewer falls and hospitalizations as well as the maintenance of independence, suggests newly published research from the Hebrew SeniorLife...
$7.4 billion merger to join Sabra, Care Capital Properties
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Lois A. Bowers
May 08, 2017
Sabra Health Care REIT and Care Capital Properties will merge to form a healthcare real estate investment trust with a portfolio of 564 investments across 43 states and Canada, the companies announced...
CNA accused of using work Wi-Fi to download, share child pornography
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Lois A. Bowers
May 03, 2017
A certified nursing assistant who worked the overnight shift at a Wisconsin assisted living community faces felony charges for allegedly downloading, watching and sharing child pornography from his personal...
Holiday Retirement to relocate headquarters from Oregon to Florida
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 26, 2017
The country’s largest independent living operator and second-largest overall senior living company announced Wednesday its intentions to move its headquarters from the West Coast to the East Coast...
60% of older owners of cellphones use them while driving
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 24, 2017
It’s not just your residents’ adult children and grandchildren. Sixty percent of drivers aged more than 65 years with cellphones said they talked on them while driving in a recent survey.
Daughter seeks $1.5 million in death of mother after fall at assisted living community
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 24, 2017
A jury trial is set to begin Monday in a case brought by a woman whose mother died after a fall in the Virginia assisted living community where she lived.
Consumer website missing 60% of substantiated complaints against senior living communities: report
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 20, 2017
More than 60% of substantiated complaints of substandard care involving one state’s assisted living communities, residential care facilities, adult foster homes and nursing facilities made since...