Touting the industry’s success in COVID-19 vaccination of staff members, senior living leaders expressed relief Tuesday after the federal government announced its withdrawal of the COVID-19 vaccination-and-testing...
Providing palliative care to wider group of people, including assisted living residents, gains bipartisan...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 24, 2022
A demonstration project to deliver palliative care no matter where an individual lives — including in assisted living communities — and earlier in the disease process has gained bipartisan support.
Medicaid advocacy to continue after GOP health bill dies, provider groups say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 18, 2017
Advocates for aging-services providers say they’ll continue their efforts to protect Medicaid funding in the wake of Monday night’s collapse of Senate Republicans’ effort to replace the...
Reporting COVID vaccination data to CMS would be ‘burdensome,’ ‘redundant’ for assisted living,...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 14, 2021
Requiring assisted living providers to report weekly COVID-19 vaccination data to the federal government would add administrative and cost burdens to operators already challenged by the pandemic and even...
US Senate launches investigation of assisted living after lay media reports about safety, staffing, pricing
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 17, 2024
The US Senate Special Committee on Aging is launching a review of the assisted living industry following recent articles in the Washington Post, which reported on the deaths of residents who wandered from...
Pay and benefit information sought for assisted living report
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 17, 2017
Assisted living communities have until Dec. 4 to submit management salary, nonmanagement wage and fringe benefit information to the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service for its Assisted Living/Personal...
CMS promises improved investigation and reporting of elder abuse in long-term care
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 19, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is working to address numerous recommendations from federal agencies to improve reporting, investigation and law enforcement notification of elder abuse, the...
‘Joint employer’ ruling appeal case arguments to begin Thursday
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 08, 2017
Oral arguments are set to begin Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit as Browning-Ferris Industries looks to overturn a 2015 decision by the National Labor Relations...
Proposed ‘excessive lobbying tax’ would hit some provider groups hard
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 04, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has proposed an “excessive lobbying tax” that if put into effect could be costly to some companies and groups representing senior living providers.
Dual enrollment status, state regulations affect end-of-life care in assisted living: study
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 03, 2022
Dual Medicare / Medicaid enrollment, state regulations, and race and ethnicity affect access to end-of-life care in assisted living communities and where residents die, according to a new study published...