Touting the industry’s success in COVID-19 vaccination of staff members, senior living leaders expressed relief Tuesday after the federal government announced its withdrawal of the COVID-19 vaccination-and-testing...
Providing palliative care to wider group of people, including assisted living residents, gains bipartisan...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 24, 2022
A demonstration project to deliver palliative care no matter where an individual lives — including in assisted living communities — and earlier in the disease process has gained bipartisan support.
Medicaid advocacy to continue after GOP health bill dies, provider groups say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 18, 2017
Advocates for aging-services providers say they’ll continue their efforts to protect Medicaid funding in the wake of Monday night’s collapse of Senate Republicans’ effort to replace the...
People in the news, April 4
Apr 04, 2017
Appointments, transitions and honors involving the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living, Covenant Retirement Communities, HCP, LCB Senior Living, Masterpiece Living...
People in the news, Dec. 15
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 15, 2020
Appointments, promotions and news at American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living, Bowman Place at Olde Bedford, Bridges by EPOCH at Hingham, Commonwealth Senior Living, Five Star...
US Senate launches investigation of assisted living after lay media reports about safety, staffing, pricing
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 17, 2024
The US Senate Special Committee on Aging is launching a review of the assisted living industry following recent articles in the Washington Post, which reported on the deaths of residents who wandered from...
Take the points
By
John O'Connor
Oct 12, 2023
Several pieces of news provide reasons to feel optimistic about the near future of senior living.
Senior living and care advocates make ‘top lobbyists’ list
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 08, 2022
Leaders from the American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living, Argentum and LeadingAge have been named on The Hill’s “Top Lobbyists 2022” list, published Wednesday.
Reporting COVID vaccination data to CMS would be ‘burdensome,’ ‘redundant’ for assisted living,...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 14, 2021
Requiring assisted living providers to report weekly COVID-19 vaccination data to the federal government would add administrative and cost burdens to operators already challenged by the pandemic and even...
Pay and benefit information sought for assisted living report
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 17, 2017
Assisted living communities have until Dec. 4 to submit management salary, nonmanagement wage and fringe benefit information to the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service for its Assisted Living/Personal...