Ventas completes $2.3 billion acquisition of New Senior Investment Group … Expanding home- and community-based services means a stronger economy: Moody’s Analytics … Long-term care industry emphasizes...
OIG finds potentially ‘significant’ health and safety issues at HCBS sites
By
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,”...
Bill would let people tap retirement accounts for long-term care insurance
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Lois A. Bowers
Dec 03, 2019
Individuals would be allowed to withdraw up to $2,000 per year from their retirement accounts, tax-free, to pay for long-term care insurance to fund long-term services and supports under a bill proposed...
$3 trillion HEROES Act passes in House with provisions for senior living, but Senate prospects dim
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 18, 2020
Although it remains to be seen whether the HEROES Act reaches the president’s desk, five provisions of the original or House-passed bill have a chance of becoming law, according to one source. Read other...
Study could lead to more care quality and outcomes research in assisted living
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 04, 2022
Assisted living communities could be the focus of more research into care quality and outcomes in the future now that a new study has provided a methodology for identifying Medicare beneficiaries living...
Planned rate increases meant to help providers address workforce shortages, pandemic costs
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 19, 2022
Assisted living communities in Nebraska could see temporary funding increases to address workforce shortages and continuing pandemic-related costs if a state plan is approved by the federal government.
A new way to measure outcomes in older adults
By
Erin Giovannetti
Aug 21, 2017
With support from the SCAN Foundation and the John A. Hartford Foundation, the National Committee for Quality Assurance and six collaborating organizations are testing two approaches to measuring outcomes...
‘Most important moment in a generation’: LeadingAge offers Congress blueprint to national aging services...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 02, 2021
Modernizing aging buildings, increasing affordable senior housing stock, investing in workforce recruitment and retention, and financing are key factors in a blueprint for building the national aging infrastructure...
CMS tool creating new pathways to assisted living could prove ‘a positive development for residents...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 26, 2022
A tool to help states increase long-term services and supports rebalancing could lead to more business for assisted living providers.
Assisted living threatened by looming federal expirations
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 02, 2019
A federal rule provision and a federal program, both of which help enable older adults to live in assisted living or at home rather than in nursing homes, are set to expire Dec. 31 unless Congress acts.