Officials encouraged as no new cases of Legionnaires’ disease reported at Illinois senior living community … Tennessee healthcare providers see potential upsides but still have questions over governor’s...
North Dakota becomes final state with Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 20, 2019
North Dakota has become the final state to have a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. The entities investigate and prosecute Medicaid provider fraud and resident / patient abuse and neglect in assisted living...
Medicaid block grant proposal ‘must be carefully evaluated,’ provider group says
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 19, 2019
A plan that would make Tennessee the first state to receive its Medicaid funding via a block grant “must be carefully evaluated,” the executive director of the Tennessee Health Care Association...
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Aug 30, 2019
1 year later: An update on the Welltower-ProMedica partnership … New York Times opinion piece says assisted living is “how not to grow old in America” … Drinking coffee may ease tremors in...
128 charges against 3 highlight importance of licensed assisted living facilities, ombudsman says
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 25, 2019
Three Maryland residents face a collective 128 charges of abuse and neglect of a vulnerable adult, financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, embezzlement, theft, fraud and operating a combined total...
OIG finds potentially ‘significant’ health and safety issues at HCBS sites
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 17, 2019
Kentucky put at risk the health and safety of some older and disabled adults receiving home- and community-based services through section 1915(c) Medicaid waivers because its annual inspections were “insufficient,”...
Hawaii, Mississippi bookend new list of healthiest states for older adults
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 10, 2019
Hawaii is the healthiest state for older adults, and Mississippi is the least healthy, according to United Health Foundation’s 2019 “America’s Health Rankings Senior Report.” Where does your...
Senior living CEO named director of Oklahoma’s largest state agency
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 07, 2019
Justin Brown, CEO of Choice Capital Partners, the ownership entity for Villagio Senior Living, has been named director of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, which has approximately 7,000 employees...
Washington on verge of becoming first state to offer public long-term care insurance program
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 22, 2019
Washington may become the first state to offer workers a long-term care insurance program into which they would pay to help offset assisted living and other costs.
Florida assisted living communities challenged by staffing, Medicaid, study confirms
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 16, 2019
Staffing and Medicaid reimbursement were two pressing issues for operators that emerged from a recent survey commissioned by the Florida Assisted Living Association, the organization’s CEO, Shaddrick...