States navigate implementing COVID-19 vaccine requirements
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 04, 2021
Today is the day that Connecticut’s long-term workers and other workers employed by the state are required to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate or agree to regular testing. The deadline was postponed...
‘Esther’s Law’ a step closer to allowing cameras into Ohio long-term care residents’ rooms
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 27, 2021
A bipartisan bill that would enable long-term care residents and their families to install remote monitoring equipment in their rooms had a hearing in the Ohio House of Representatives’ Families, Aging...
‘Holistic’ approach can address communities’ infrastructure needs
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 16, 2021
Skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities and other types of senior living and care providers can work with a partner to leverage a modern funding method, mitigate risk, create cost efficiency...
House Ways and Means Committee considers adding paid family leave to infrastructure bill
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 15, 2021
The chief tax-writing committee in the U.S. House of Representatives is looking to add universal paid leave and guaranteed access to affordable, quality child care to the proposed $3.5 trillion economic...
‘Rough couple of months ahead’: Increasing COVID-19 litigation could mean trouble for employers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 10, 2021
An increase in litigation this summer could foreshadow a rough few months ahead for employers, especially in the healthcare sector, according to a report from employment and labor law firm Fisher Phillips.
More senators urge HHS to distribute PRF resources to healthcare providers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 09, 2021
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other Republican senators have added their voices to the growing number of lawmakers urging Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to release...
Thousands of Washingtonians look to opt out of long-term care insurance tax
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 09, 2021
Washington state is set to launch next year the nation’s first publicly operated insurance program next year to help offset residents’ future long-term care costs, but not all workers are on board...
Wages, job quality top direct care concerns moving into next decade: PHI
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 08, 2021
An aging population, along with high turnover among care workers, could pose continuing challenges to the long-term care industry in the coming decade, according to a new report from the advocacy group...
‘Hung out to dry’: Groups urge extension for vaccine mandate in Maine
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 31, 2021
Five healthcare advocacy groups are asking Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) to extend the deadline for mandatory vaccines for healthcare workers across the state, citing a “severe and worsening essential support...
Providers could lose employee retention credit funds sooner than expected
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 25, 2021
The version of the infrastructure bill approved by the Senate earlier this month could end the employee retention credit three months sooner than expected.