Assisted living communities should be integrated into greater community, report recommends
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 08, 2022
Assisted living communities and other congregate care settings are “vital” and should be more fully integrated into surrounding communities through short-term respite care, adult day services, and...
Monitoring Provider Relief Fund will provide lessons, inform future policymaking: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 02, 2022
Given the “controversy” surrounding the $178 billion distributed through the COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund, monitoring the impact of the fund will provide valuable lessons for pandemic recovery and...
Support grows for proposed pilot expanding assisted living access to veterans
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 31, 2022
Legislation creating a pilot program allowing veterans access to assisted living care has been introduced in the House of Representatives.
OSHA can issue COVID-19 healthcare standard on its own timeline: courts
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 30, 2022
The federal government can issue a permanent COVID-19 healthcare standard on its own timeline after an appellate court ruled against a group of unions hoping to expedite the process.
Feds’ antipsychotic drug reduction efforts in assisted living fail to produce success seen in nursing...
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 23, 2022
A federal initiative to reduce antipsychotic prescribing in long-term care facilities failed to impact prescriptions in assisted living residents with dementia, the first study of its kind has found.
Money Follows the Person program limits hinder senior living’s ability to serve older adults, groups...
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 23, 2022
Industry associations representing senior living providers say they support the federal government’s Monday announcement of the expansion of Medicaid’s Money Follows the Person demonstration program...
People in the news, Aug. 23
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 23, 2022
Appointments, promotions and other news at Civitas Senior Living, The Eden Alternative, Enseo, Erickson Senior Living, Health Dimensions Group, LCB Senior Living, Le Groupe Maurice, Lifespark, MedCore...
People in the news, Aug. 16
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Nicole Blanchard
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 16, 2022
Appointments, promotions and other news at American Senior Communities, BeeHive Homes, Benchmark Senior Living, ConnectOne Bank, The Cottages, Cushman & Wakefield, Health Services Management, Heritage...
Business briefs, Aug. 11
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 11, 2022
2 SNFs, 5 employees indicted on fraud charges … Home healthcare provider ordered to pay $1.5 million in back wages, damages, civil fines … Trilogy Health Services partners with Norton Healthcare to...
Public health emergency extension needed so operators can respond to ‘ever-evolving pandemic,’ AHCA/NCAL...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 10, 2022
The American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted living has asked the federal government to extend the public health emergency through the end of the year, given the emergence of new...