White House thrusts long-term care into COVID-19 winter preparedness plans
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 16, 2022
The White House has made long-term care facilities a key element of its focus on preventing a winter surge of COVID-19.
Vaccination, booster shots remain top strategy in protecting long-term care residents, workers
By
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,...
Affordable senior housing providers say they are stretched thin due to a host of operational and workforce challenges, but partnerships with outside agencies are helping them meet residents’ needs, according...
Assisted living providers in group fined $19 million for not complying with COVID-19 vaccination mandate
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 24, 2021
Eleven assisted living service agencies were among the more than 100 Connecticut long-term care providers fined a total of $19 million for failing to comply with an executive order mandating staff COVID-19...
California mandates COVID-19 vaccination for long-term care workers
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 28, 2021
In an effort to counter a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” fueled by the delta variant and vaccine hesitancy, California became the first state to require all state workers, as well as workers in long-term...
Senior living COVID vaccine ambassador: ‘We have the tools to help solve this issue; we should use...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 05, 2021
When Miles Lee took a job last fall in long-term care, he didn’t know his optimism over a vaccine for a deadly pandemic would put him front and center in helping his peers deal with vaccine hesitancy.
Religious exemptions: COVID-19 vaccination about ‘good of community,’ not just individual rights
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 05, 2021
Taking a COVID-19 vaccine is not just about individual rights and choices; it also is about how those rights and choices affect the greater community. That’s according to Brian Kane, Ph.D., of the Catholic...
Federal regulation threat, new COVID funding, liability protections top issues facing senior living:...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 27, 2021
An interim rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is “concerning” because it could lead to expanded federal regulation of assisted living, according to a speaker Wednesday on an Argentum...
New federal vaccination reporting rule may have implications for assisted living
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 12, 2021
A new federal requirement for skilled nursing facilities to report weekly COVID-19 vaccination data may have implications for assisted living providers as efforts to increase vaccination uptake ramp up.
NAHC calls on members to press Congress on Choose Home bill
By
Diane Eastabrook
Aug 03, 2021
The National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) is issuing an urgent call to action, imploring members to lobby lawmakers on the recently introduced Choose Home legislation.