Long-term care workforce shortages worst in all of healthcare, provider groups say as Senate committee...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 17, 2023
Healthcare workforce shortages were front and center at Thursday’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, and senior living industry advocates made their voices heard.
White House thrusts long-term care into COVID-19 winter preparedness plans
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 16, 2022
The White House has made long-term care facilities a key element of its focus on preventing a winter surge of COVID-19.
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.
White House open to ‘all of the above’ strategies to protect older adults from COVID-19
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 05, 2023
As the country enters the fourth year of dealing with COVID-19, the federal government is offering its assistance on testing access, vaccines and guidance on antiviral treatments, according to White House...
Arrow Senior Living plans Joint Commission assisted living accreditation for entire portfolio
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 27, 2022
Vitalia North Olmsted has become the second stand-alone assisted living community in the United States — and the first in Ohio — to receive accreditation by The Joint Commission. The announcement comes...
HCBS settings final rule ‘not a good fit’ for assisted living, provider group says
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 23, 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services home- and community-based services settings final rule is written so broadly that its requirements “run in opposition to person centered planning” for older...
Increase in antipsychotic prescribing for residents with dementia raises concerns
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 09, 2024
The persistence of a pandemic-associated increase in antipsychotic, antidepressant and anticonvulsant medication use in assisted living residents — and a greater increase in antipsychotic use in dementia...
As HCBS settings rule compliance date arrives, some worry about future for assisted living providers,...
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 20, 2023
As federal officials celebrated “an important milestone” in the implementation of the home- and community-based services settings final rule on Friday, some senior living industry advocates warned...
RIP PRF: Debt ceiling deal effectively ends pandemic relief program with billions unspent
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 09, 2023
The bipartisan debt ceiling deal has officially signaled the death knell for the Provider Relief Fund, with billions in funds that potentially could have assisted senior living and other long-term care...
New COVID-19 guidance gives assisted living providers much more flexibility
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 27, 2022
Senior living experts have welcomed revised COVID-19 infection prevention and control guidance for healthcare settings, saying it provides more flexibility for providers to respond to current local conditions.