Maplewood Senior Living expands Inspῑr brand to Washington D.C.’s Embassy Row … Integral Senior Living, Solstice Senior Living mandate vaccine boosters for employees … LeadingAge California, AllyAlign...
Business briefs for Monday, Oct. 26
Oct 26, 2020
HHS broadens definition of lost revenue for Provider Relief Fund to allow more aid to operators … Provider groups request extension of moratorium on the 2% Medicare sequester cuts … Ziegler closes...
Home care briefs for Friday, Oct. 16
Oct 16, 2020
Humana adds 9,500 retail pharmacy locations to preferred Medicare Part D network in the form of Kroger Health and its family of pharmacies … Stress-filled pandemic takes physical toll, causing insomnia,...
Business briefs for Monday, Aug. 31
Aug 31, 2020
CMS releases additional FAQs on Provider Relief Fund, PPP for Medicare providers … Virginia lawmakers look to extend legal immunity to assisted living providers … M&T Realty Capital Corp. delivers...
Don’t renege on affordable senior housing commitments, LeadingAge tells Congress
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 12, 2021
Reports that $300 billion in affordable housing investments for older adults could be slashed from the budget reconciliation legislation under consideration by federal legislators has an aging services...
15 percent of off-label antipsychotic use in assisted living may be inappropriate, but nursing home reduction...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 14, 2021
The rate of potentially inappropriate prescribing of drugs in assisted living is 15% for antipsychotics and 21% for antianxiety medications, according to the authors of a new study published in JAMDA,...
Home Care briefs for Monday, April 12
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 12, 2021
VP Kamala Harris speaks at weekend care summit … Former director of CMS Innovation Center launches new healthcare company … Moving Health Home coalition expanding with seven additional organizations...
Business briefs, May 20
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 20, 2022
HHS announces $15M in funding for behavioral health services in SNFs … As Medicare Advantage grows, experts say, so do denials … Governor approves more than $125M for nursing education … Ridgeline...
Business briefs, Aug. 18
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 18, 2021
Former LeadingAge Board Chair, Ecumen CEO Kathryn Roberts remembered as ‘transformational leader’ … Otterbein SeniorLife, Kendal at Granville to affiliate … SNF settles Medicare...
Interventions can help reverse physical frailty, study finds
By
Alyssa Salela
Jun 21, 2017
Diet, exercise and stimulating activities are keys to reversing physical frailty, recent research has found.