Senior living providers among recipients of $7.5 billion in American Rescue Plan Rural COVID-19 relief...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 24, 2021
Assisted living providers are among those that are receiving American Rescue Plan rural payments to help with financial effects from the pandemic.
Assisted living providers in group fined $19 million for not complying with COVID-19 vaccination mandate
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 24, 2021
Eleven assisted living service agencies were among the more than 100 Connecticut long-term care providers fined a total of $19 million for failing to comply with an executive order mandating staff COVID-19...
CMS dementia care pilot program to expand care delivery options
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 01, 2023
Assisted living residents may be part of a new Medicare dementia care model that will test an alternative payment for family caregivers while expanding care delivery options to allow people living with...
Study could lead to more care quality and outcomes research in assisted living
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 04, 2022
Assisted living communities could be the focus of more research into care quality and outcomes in the future now that a new study has provided a methodology for identifying Medicare beneficiaries living...
Social connections, engagement keys to winning over prospective senior living residents: survey
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 07, 2021
Social connections, technology and access to the outdoors are key to winning over prospective residents to senior living, according to a new lifestyle survey of older adults.
Raise grant rates for assisted living, wages and benefits for caregivers, board recommends
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 05, 2022
A state government advisory board is recommending that the Virginia General Assembly increase grant awards to cover assisted living costs, mandate sick leave and a living wage for direct care workers,...
Political landscape provides ‘unprecedented opportunity’ for assisted living: Argentum
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 01, 2021
The senior living industry has an “unprecedented opportunity” to fight for the needs of assisted living, independent living and senior housing overall as infrastructure discussions advance on Capitol...
$12 million available for assisted living to ‘build long-term resiliency’ in wake of COVID-19
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 18, 2022
Assisted living and other long-term care providers in Pennsylvania are eligible to apply for almost $12 million in federal funding to invest in workforce and infrastructure needs to build “long-term...
Assisted living provides value, satisfaction in long-term care continuum, industry advocates say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 26, 2024
The assisted living industry is fighting back against growing scrutiny over staffing challenges and what consumer groups and the lay media say is a cost structure that prices many older adults out of services...
CMS tool creating new pathways to assisted living could prove ‘a positive development for residents...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 26, 2022
A tool to help states increase long-term services and supports rebalancing could lead to more business for assisted living providers.