Flu season ramping up with variant identified as dangerous to older adults: CDC
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 03, 2021
This year’s flu season is gaining traction with a strain that is especially dangerous for older adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As COVID-19 vaccine mandate challenges play out, assisted living providers are stuck in ‘doughnut hole’...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 02, 2021
A federal COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate was hit with another lawsuit Monday, which challenged the government’s authority to issue such a mandate and called the mandate a “gross abuse” of government...
Florida lawmakers take on federal COVID-19 vaccination mandates
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 19, 2021
A series of state bills aimed at dismantling employer COVID-19 vaccine mandates is headed to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk, potentially making the state the first to fine employers for requiring vaccinations.
Vaccination, booster shots remain top strategy in protecting long-term care residents, workers
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 18, 2021
COVID-19 is not done with us. LeadingAge Senior Vice President of Policy Ruth Katz opened Wednesday’s membership update call with news that several states are seeing increasing coronavirus cases. Connecticut,...
Regardless of legal challenges, be prepared to implement COVID-19 vaccination mandates: legal experts
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 17, 2021
Be prepared to act. That was the consensus from a panel of legal experts who provided an update on the status of federal healthcare, COVID-19 vaccination and testing requirements to Argentum members on...
Federal COVID-19 vaccination, testing mandates have pros, cons, experts say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 05, 2021
Although generally supportive of federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates for members of its workforce, senior living leaders are concerned about the effects on its workforce.
$15 million in fines facing providers who don’t comply with COVID-19 vaccine mandate
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 03, 2021
Connecticut assisted living communities that fail to comply with an executive order mandating staff COVID-19 vaccinations could face up to $15 million in penalties.
Publication imminent for COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 02, 2021
A COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses with 100 or more employees will be published in the Federal Register “in the coming days,” a Department of Labor spokesperson told McKnight’s on...
Senior living operators ‘incredibly agile and dedicated’ during COVID-19 pandemic: study
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 29, 2021
Senior living and care providers have been “incredibly agile and dedicated” during the pandemic, working 24 / 7 to keep residents safe, researchers concluded after interviews with operators about their...
Assisted living providers balance care and service delivery, compliance with complex policies: speaker
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 27, 2021
ATLANTA — Assisted living and life plan communities have had much to deal with in the past 18 months, including fair housing challenges, vaccine mandates and exemptions, COVID-19 liability lawsuits,...