Connected Living is updating its free public app to provide real-time updates about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to senior living staff members, residents and families. It will include information...
$100 billion should be added to Provider Relief Fund for coronavirus-related needs, industry groups say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 29, 2020
Congress should pass another COVID-19 funding package, adding $100 billion to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Provider Relief Fund, maintain the American Health Care Association / National...
PPE, COVID-19 testing could depend on provider reporting, associations say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 13, 2020
Communicating COVID-19 information to authorities, residents and staff could help ensure that operators get the personal protective equipment and testing they need, two national associations said Saturday....
Fund all costs for COVID-19 testing of senior living staff, LeadingAge CEO asks leaders in Congress
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 01, 2020
Congress should fund the cost of COVID-19 testing for all staff members, including repeat testing, in assisted living communities, life plan communities and affordable seniors housing communities and other...
Frontline workers must be priority for COVID-19 resources, groups say; Juniper to test all residents,...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 03, 2020
The safety and well-being of frontline workers in senior living and skilled nursing must be prioritized in order to ensure that older adults receive the care they need and that the spread of COVID-19 is...
$3 billion addition to Provider Relief Fund ‘falls woefully short,’ provider groups say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 22, 2020
A $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill is on its way to the president’s desk after being passed by both houses of Congress by late Monday. Trade associations representing senior living operators, however,...
Loosened visitation restrictions for senior living may follow issuance of guidance for nursing homes,...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 11, 2021
Senior living industry groups said they are hopeful that the visitation rules for nursing homes released Wednesday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will spur states to make similar recommendations...
OSHA accepting new comments on healthcare worker COVID-19 protection rule
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 23, 2022
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is accepting additional comments as it works to establish a final rule meant to protect assisted living and other healthcare workers from exposure to COVID-19...
Long-term care struggles for COVID-19 resources speak to deeper societal issue, leaders say
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Lois A. Bowers
May 15, 2020
Assisted living communities’ and nursing homes’ difficulty in securing personal protective equipment and testing to prevent or contain the spread of COVID-19, despite the fact that older adults are...
COVID-19 vaccine program sign-up begins today for senior living operators
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 19, 2020
Assisted living and other long-term care communities beginning today can opt in to a federal program through which residents and staff members will be vaccinated against COVID-19 free of charge when a...