Brookdale spends $71 million to fight COVID-19, sees crisis as leadership opportunity
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 12, 2020
Although COVID-19 has had significant effects on the senior housing industry as a whole, Brookdale Senior Living sees the crisis as an opportunity to lead, President and CEO Cindy Baier said Tuesday.
Supreme Court expands employers’ requirements for religious accommodations
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 30, 2023
How far must an employer go to accommodate a workers’ religious practices? The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an employer’s financial hardship must be more than a minimal one to deny a worker time...
‘Real solutions’ for long-term care needed from legislators, industry leader says
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 18, 2022
Saying that long-term care is at a “crisis point,” LeadingAge is urging lawmakers to deliver “real solutions” for older adults and their caregivers in senior living and across the long-term care...
$10.3 million settlement sends ‘strong warning’ to employers with vaccine mandates, attorney says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 02, 2022
A $10.3 million settlement in a class action lawsuit that challenged a private healthcare employer’s COVID-19 vaccination policy sends a “strong warning” to companies to consider workers with religious...
NIH investigating COVID-19 experiments conducted at Boston University
Oct 19, 2022
The US National Institutes of Health is investigating COVID-19 experiments at Boston University that have sparked a media firestorm, with some news outlets alleging that scientists created a “killer”...
Remote-controlled robots being tested to assess residents living with dementia
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 28, 2021
Health practitioners in Scotland are piloting a remote-controlled robot to assess the physical and cognitive health of care home residents with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
HHS extends deadline for assisted living operators to apply for CARES Act funding
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 20, 2020
The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday extended until Aug. 3 the deadline for eligible state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program providers, including assisted living operators,...
Operator faces $1.5M wrongful death lawsuit over failure to conduct timely background check
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 29, 2021
A Kansas assisted living community is facing a $1.5 million wrongful death lawsuit alleging “grossly wanton and negligent” actions in failing to conduct a timely background check on an employee now...
Members of Congress call on CMS to collaborate in addressing nursing home workforce challenges
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 14, 2022
A bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives is looking to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to work with them to resolve workforce shortages experienced by nursing homes across...
Proposed legislation would restore worker tax cuts, support unionization efforts
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 13, 2023
Democrat senators introduced two bills Thursday that they claim will make the tax code fairer for workers. The bills aim to ease workers’ tax burden and crack down on corporate anti-union practices