Town & Country Life Plan Community holds grand opening for $25M memory care community … KeyBank provides $10.2M HUD financing for Livermore Healthcare in California … LifeSpire assumes ownership of...
Home Care briefs for Friday, July 23
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jul 23, 2021
Palmetto GBA to return $17,513 in lookback payments related to hospice cap calculations … Biden expects FDA to quickly approve COVID vaccines … Happify Health launches a new app to treat depression...
Operator of 8 NJ nursing homes faces charges of labor law violations from union
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 22, 2021
The largest healthcare union in the United States has filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board against Toms River, NJ-based Complete Care Management for alleged violations of federal labor...
Plan to address housing, homelessness includes $3 billion to acquire, renovate senior living communities
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 21, 2021
California’s $12 billion funding package to address housing and homelessness in the state includes $3 billion for the Health and Human Services Agency to create “clinically enriched behavioral health...
‘Professional fraudster, identity thief’ sentenced in third elder fraud conviction
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 20, 2021
A “professional fraudster and identity thief” previously convicted — twice — of stealing from older adults and a co-worker was sentenced last week to four years in prison for stealing from two...
Advanced at-home wearable technology is on the way
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jul 20, 2021
Innovative at-home wearable technology could be on the market in a few years.
FDA to prioritize full approval for Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
Jul 16, 2021
Full approval could help boost vaccination efforts in the United States.
Meet Susan Ryan, Hall of Honor inductee
By
Chloe Konrad
Jul 16, 2021
Susan Ryan, senior director, The Green House Project, Linthicum, MD, is in the 2021 class of the McKnight’s Women of Distinction as a Hall of Honor inductee.
Home care agencies push for Medicaid caregiver funding while association lobbies for end to Medicare...
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jul 16, 2021
As home care helps to drive home the need for Congress to increase Medicaid funding, providers on Thursday made two key Medicare-related requests.
COVID-19 bill may protect senior living community from liability in resident’s death
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 16, 2021
A provision included in a COVID-19 relief bill passed by the North Carolina General Assembly last year might provide a Charlotte assisted living and memory care community and its parent company immunity...