Bill born of pandemic lessons overreaches scope of assisted living licensure, experts say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 19, 2021
A bill before the Connecticut Legislature overreaches the licensing scope of assisted living communities by extending regulatory requirements aimed at healthcare settings, according to state senior living...
Senior living industry bracing for effects state reopening will have on residents, staff
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 04, 2020
As states begin to reopen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the long-term care industry is taking a more cautious approach to relaxing the protocols put in place over the past two months.
More news for Tuesday, April 6
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 06, 2021
Atlanta-based The Arbor Company requires employees to receive COVID-19 vaccine by June 30 … West Virginia’s vaccination maintenance plan offers vaccine to family and caregivers of assisted living residents...
Legislation would establish communicable disease reporting, visitation, essential caregiver requirements
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 19, 2021
Assisted living and continuing care retirement communities would be subject to disclosing communicable disease information in their communities if a series of bills introduced by the Texas Legislature...
Visitation, vaccination, essential caregivers highlight state reopening plans for assisted living
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 22, 2021
As vaccination rates increase among senior living residents and staff, states are following the federal government’s lead in relaxing restrictions.
$1.3 billion omnibus bill targets Minnesota’s long-term care workforce crisis
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 28, 2022
A comprehensive health and human services reform bill passed Tuesday by the Minnesota Senate aims to address the state’s long-term care workforce crisis.
Oregon assisted living communities reopen to indoor visitation this week
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 04, 2020
The Oregon Department of Human Services began allowing limited indoor visitation at assisted living communities, residential care facilities and nursing homes in the state on Monday.
Idaho approves $10 million in funding to help assisted living and other long-term care operators with...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 19, 2020
The state of Idaho is allocating another $10 million of its Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funds to long-term care facilities, including assisted living communities, to combat...
Senior living needs COVID-19 tests, too, Argentum tells HHS as Ohio issues mandate
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 24, 2020
Nursing homes aren’t the only long-term care settings that need testing capabilities amid the coronavirus pandemic, Argentum President and CEO James Balda said a day after HHS announced it would be sending...
Public health order requires PCR testing for COVID at assisted living communities
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 16, 2020
Assisted living communities and other long-term care facilities in Colorado will be required to use polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, tests for ongoing weekly surveillance testing of all staff members...