COVID ‘long-haulers’ may qualify as disabled under federal law
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 28, 2021
Employers may need to grant accommodations to some people experiencing long-term effects of COVID-19, who may qualify as disabled, according to new guidance issued jointly Monday by the Department of Health...
$10 billion bipartisan bill aims to address financial losses, workforce shortages in assisted living
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 31, 2022
Assisted living providers would receive $10 billion in funding to help them recover from pandemic-related financial and workforce challenges if a bipartisan bill introduced Thursday by U.S. Reps. Lori...
U.S. appeals court denies religious exemption for state’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 02, 2021
A three-panel federal appeals court on Friday removed a lower court’s temporary injunction that had allowed healthcare workers to seek religious exemptions to New York state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
‘Commonsense immigration reform’ still a key to addressing workforce shortages in long-term care
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 23, 2021
The long-term care industry Friday may have hit a bump in pinning some of its hopes on immigration to ease the ongoing workforce shortages, as the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that...
Revenues up, net income down this year: National HealthCare Corp.
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 09, 2022
First-quarter 2022 net operating revenues and grant income totaled almost $2.8 million, compared with more than $2.5 million for the first quarter of 2021, for a year-over-year increase of 11.2%, Murfreesboro,...
Dwyer Workforce Development closes $590 million, 50-SNF deal
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 22, 2022
The Baltimore-based Jack and Nancy Dwyer Workforce Development Center announced Wednesday the $590 million acquisition of a Texas-based 50-skilled-nursing-facility portfolio managed by Regency Integrated...
$3.6 million program seeks to address nursing shortage
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 10, 2022
titioners and nurse scientists in nursing homes, hospitals, schools and other settings.
Former school repurposed for New England’s first LBGTQ affordable senior housing community
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 13, 2022
The former William Barton Rogers Middle School in Hyde Park, MA, which has sat idle for years, soon will see new life as Boston’s — and all of New England’s — first affordable housing community...
Brokerage employees working with senior living facilities accused of setting up captives, skimming
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 27, 2022
An Oregon insurance brokerage firm that serves senior living facilities is suing some former employees for allegedly moving existing partners’ insurance policies into captives for clients and then skimming...
Lawmakers introduce legislation aimed at bolstering wages, benefits for SNF workforce
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 26, 2021
The Nursing Home Workforce Support and Expansion Act, introduced in the House of Representatives Tuesday, would help skilled nursing providers recruit and retain caregivers by helping to strengthen wages...