Employers can require proof of COVID-19 vaccination from employees — with some exceptions — according to new recommendations from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Assisted living could share in $12.7 billion investment in HCBS through American Rescue Plan
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 17, 2021
Assisted living providers could gain access to a $12.7 billion infusion for Medicaid home- and community-based services through the American Rescue Plan.
Religious exemptions: COVID-19 vaccination about ‘good of community,’ not just individual rights
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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...
It’s time to ‘go on offense’ and shift narrative on aging services: LeadingAge
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 19, 2022
DENVER — Two years ago, LeadingAge President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan said she saw the pandemic as “the moment we’ve been waiting for.” Now, she said Tuesday at the group’s Annual Meeting +...
Breakthrough infection experience leads senior living provider to insist that ‘vaccinations are necessary’
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 12, 2021
Connecticut-based Masonicare was among the first senior living providers to announce a staff COVID-19 vaccine mandate back in December 2020, when vaccines first became available. So when a staff member...
‘Calm preparedness’ carries community through COVID-19 breakthrough infections
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 31, 2021
Kendal at Oberlin, a Northeast Ohio life plan community, went 16 months without a resident coronavirus case. Then a resident’s fever prompted a rapid test within the past month, which came back positive.
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...
64 percent of senior living communities saw no COVID-19-related deaths: NIC-funded study
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 03, 2021
A majority (64%) of senior living communities reported no COVID-19 deaths in 2020, according to an analysis of COVID-19 deaths across the long-term care residential continuum released today.
Senior living seeks additional relief in wake of passage of American Rescue Plan Act
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 11, 2021
Senior living industry leaders said Wednesday that they will continue to press the federal government for additional coronavirus relief — and urge owners and operators to do so, too — after the House...
Pandemic effects linger, requiring adjustments on visitation, staffing: CEO
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 23, 2021
With its first COVID-19 vaccination booster clinic on the calendar for next week, one Washington, D.C.-based long-term care provider said its staff and residents are lining up after seeing the results...