A group of 12 states filed a lawsuit Monday against the Biden administration in an attempt to block its vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, asserting that the requirement is unconstitutional and violates...
Federal dollars gone, Pennsylvania offers support to senior living during coronavirus outbreaks
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 22, 2021
Although federal funding to provide COVID-19 clinical, operational and administrative support to senior living communities and other long-term care facilities in Pennsylvania ran out last month, the state...
Fires force California senior living communities to evacuate
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 28, 2019
Senior living organizations with communities in certain parts of California put their disaster preparedness plans into action over the weekend as wildfires spread.
Potential coronavirus leads to quarantine, no-visitor policies at Nebraska senior living communities
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 10, 2020
Two Nebraska senior living communities are under quarantine, and two others are not allowing visitors “out of an abundance of caution” after the communities’ operator learned that an employee of...
Connecticut to pay research firm $450,000 to review state’s COVID-19 response in senior living
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 09, 2020
The state of Connecticut will pay a research firm $450,000 to conduct an independent review of the state’s COVID-19 response in assisted living communities and nursing homes, Gov. Ned Lamont announced...
Report offers recommendations to help assisted living prepare for COVID-19’s second wave
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 20, 2020
A third-party research team has released an interim report on its preliminary assessment of the coronavirus outbreak in Connecticut’s assisted living communities and nursing homes, along with short-term...
Assisted living communities left out of state COVID-19 testing, data initiatives
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 19, 2020
Associations representing assisted living operators are calling attention to the fact that in some states, assisted living communities are being left out of testing and data initiatives.
Support for vaccination mandates in senior living continues to grow
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 01, 2021
At least half of Florida’s assisted living communities already have implemented — or plan to initiate — COVID-19 vaccination mandates for staff members, according to a recent poll.