Accelerated pace of change will continue for senior living
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 04, 2024
The senior housing and care industry has experienced an accelerated pace of change over the past decade — particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic — in areas including technology adoption, workforce...
HUD 2024 funding proposal presents ‘mixed bag’ for senior housing
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 15, 2023
President Biden’s $73.3 billion budget request to address affordable housing in 2024 is “strong” overall but presents a “mixed bag” for senior housing, according to LeadingAge.
Bill contains ‘big, bold’ changes to benefit affordable senior housing
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 20, 2021
New legislation introduced Wednesday will make a “generational investment” in affordable housing, including seniors housing, by targeting sweeping financing reforms to combat homelessness and expand...
Raid on Provider Relief Fund ‘alarming and potentially detrimental’ to senior living caregivers,...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 28, 2022
A report that $7 billion in Provider Relief Fund dollars meant to cover pandemic-related expenses for healthcare providers instead was used to buy COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics is “alarming and...
It’s time to ‘go on offense’ and shift narrative on aging services: LeadingAge
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 19, 2022
DENVER — Two years ago, LeadingAge President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan said she saw the pandemic as “the moment we’ve been waiting for.” Now, she said Tuesday at the group’s Annual Meeting +...
Breakthrough infection experience leads senior living provider to insist that ‘vaccinations are necessary’
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 12, 2021
Connecticut-based Masonicare was among the first senior living providers to announce a staff COVID-19 vaccine mandate back in December 2020, when vaccines first became available. So when a staff member...
‘Calm preparedness’ carries community through COVID-19 breakthrough infections
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 31, 2021
Kendal at Oberlin, a Northeast Ohio life plan community, went 16 months without a resident coronavirus case. Then a resident’s fever prompted a rapid test within the past month, which came back positive.
Assisted living providers should be allowed to lead Medicare ACOs, advocacy group says
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 23, 2023
Medicare’s Shared Savings Program should be amended to allow more provider types — including assisted living providers — to lead its accountable care organizations, Nicole Fallon, LeadingAge vice...
$4 billion increase in Alzheimer’s funding needed to prevent ‘catastrophe,’ coalition with provider...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 11, 2023
Funding the national response to Alzheimer’s and related dementias is a “national priority, economic and budgetary necessity, health and moral imperative,” according to a coalition of 360 organizations...
Affordable senior housing providers say they are stretched thin due to a host of operational and workforce challenges, but partnerships with outside agencies are helping them meet residents’ needs, according...