Feds put ‘conscience rule’ implementation on hold until November
By
John O'Connor
Jul 03, 2019
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will postpone a rule allowing workers to decline performing tasks they find morally objectionable until at least November.
Taking pride in LGBT-friendly communities
By
Mallory Hackett
Jul 03, 2019
Watermark Retirement Communities said is the first nationwide senior living company to pursue the top-level SAGE Platinum credentials for all 58 of its communities. Learn more, and find out how to submit...
Healthcare, civil rights groups join states in suing federal government over ‘conscience rule’
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 30, 2019
Lambda Legal, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the “conscience rule” issued earlier this month by the...
23 states, cities, municipalities sue federal government over ‘conscience rule’
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 23, 2019
A coalition of 23 states, cities and municipalities filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the federal government for a final rule that allows individual healthcare workers as well as healthcare organizations...
HHS says new rule allows healthcare workers, organizations to honor religious and moral principles in...
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 03, 2019
Individual healthcare workers as well as healthcare organizations can decline to provide care that conflicts with their religious and moral beliefs or mission under a final rule issued Thursday by the...
First-ever index will measure treatment of LGBTQ residents in senior living
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 15, 2019
Elder advocacy group SAGE and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation today are announcing plans for what they believe is the first-ever nationwide tool to assess how well senior living and other long-term...
New National Senior Campuses chair plans to focus on diversity, technology, civic issues
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 29, 2019
Increasing diversity among residents and staff, upgrading technology and collaborating on civic issues with residents of the greater community are the main goals that Michelle Bohreer has identified for...
Bipartisan legislation would add LGBT protections to civil rights laws
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 14, 2019
Bipartisan legislation reintroduced Wednesday in the Senate and the House of Representatives, if passed, would amend existing federal civil rights laws to explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis...
Senior living must be truly inclusive to reflect its mission
By
Vassar Byrd
Feb 11, 2019
A recent court case decision takes aim at the heart of senior living, which is about connection, meaning and relationships.
Discrimination lawsuit brought against CCRC by lesbian couple is dismissed
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 18, 2019
A federal judge Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against a Missouri continuing care retirement community that had been accused of discriminating against a lesbian couple by not allowing them to live there,...