Compensation spending requirement, quality measures are the focus of comments that groups submitted to the federal government.
Senior living industry pitches immigration reform as partial solution to workforce crisis
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 02, 2022
With the workforce crisis top of mind for most senior living and other long-term care providers, trade associations representing providers are making a last-minute push to float immigration reform to the...
Vaccine mandate a ‘game-changer’: Good Samaritan CEO
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 09, 2021
After a resurgence of COVID-19 cases among staff and residents in its senior living and care communities over the summer, and rumblings about another variant on the horizon, Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan...
Pandemic brings focus to industry policy priorities
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 23, 2021
Working to “ensure a constructive, future-focused action plan to promote smart approaches to quality in assisted living and memory care without federal regulations” is a priority for LeadingAge this...
Career ladders, lattices can provide opportunities, but there are issues: panel
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 29, 2022
Career ladders and lattices can provide career advancement and specialization for senior living and care employees. But aging services thought leaders admit more work needs to be done to integrate programs...
Series on long-term care affordability, staffing, equity a ‘wake-up call,’ industry advocate says
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 28, 2024
A special report published last week by CNHI News and the Associated Press that focused on several “issues and complications” in assisted living and other forms of long-term care is a “wake-up call...
Don’t overlook benefits of assisted living when thinking about HCBS, industry tells Congress
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 20, 2021
Medicaid home- and community-based services expansion, workforce development, immigration reform and long-term care financing are top of mind for senior living industry leaders as they prod U.S. House...
‘Moving fast and changing every minute’: COVID-19 brings increased policy attention to long-term...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 23, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has challenged the aging services industry to imagine the unimaginable, including increased attention from policymakers, according to Ruth Katz, LeadingAge senior vice president...
Organizational culture key to building a senior living ‘dream team’
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 12, 2023
The Great Resignation has turned into the Great Opportunity to build a “dream team” for senior living providers that focus on organizational culture, according to workforce solutions experts.
ACA replacement would harm providers, caregivers, elderly, groups say
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 07, 2017
Long-term services and supports providers, Medicaid beneficiaries and professional caregivers would suffer if the bill that Republicans in the House of Representatives proposed Monday to replace the Affordable...