Price tag of Better Care Better Jobs Act is closer to $150B, NAHC’s Dombi says
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Liza Berger
Jul 20, 2021
While language in the Better Care Better Jobs Act did not mention a dollar amount, many expected it would inject around $400 billion into Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS). It turns out...
Major home care organization calls for vaccine mandate
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Liza Berger
Aug 23, 2021
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Monday urged mandatory vaccinations among healthcare staff in all settings.
Telehealth may help to improve in-person physician visits, doc offers at tech summit
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Liza Berger
Jun 09, 2021
Telehealth not only likely will remain after the pandemic, it may help to drive quality for in-person visits, a speaker said Tuesday during a session of LeadingAge’s Collaborative Care & Health IT Innovations...
Long-term care should include more HCBS, panelists assert
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Liza Berger
Mar 12, 2021
The long-term care system in coming years should include an expansion of home- and community-based services (HCBS), policy, advocacy and consumer experts said during a virtual roundtable discussion Thursday...
Leadership is like bodybuilding: Stretch muscle ‘beyond capability,’ panelist offers
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Liza Berger
Aug 03, 2020
Balancing life and career and moving ahead were two main subjects of “Finding the Secret Sauce,” the opening session of the McKnight’s Women of Distinction Forum.
Care economy totals $648B, with seniors at home helping to drive growth, report finds
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Liza Berger
Jul 15, 2021
The size of the care economy is bigger than the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, and larger than the U.S. hotel, car manufacturing and social networking industries combined.
A major home care company got a little bit bigger this week. Advocate Aurora Enterprises, a new subsidiary of the Midwest-based health Advocate Aurora Health, said on Thursday that it is acquiring Senior...
DOL targets home care for wage, employment rule violations: attorney
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Liza Berger
Sep 23, 2021
When it comes to labor and wage matters, home care agencies are in for a bumpy ride. The Department of Labor under President Biden is cracking down on home care and home health agencies that violate the...
‘Right person at right time’: Winthrop Marshall, first Black LeadingAge chair, dies
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Liza Berger
Dec 08, 2020
Winthrop Marshall, the first Black chair of the organization formerly known as the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, passed away last week.
Caretel Inns grabs Gold in McKnight’s Tech Awards with smart nurse call light system
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Liza Berger
Oct 09, 2019
Caretel Inns seized Gold in the category of High-High, High-Touch in the Senior Living track of the 2019 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards for creating its own smart nurse call light system.