CMS provides guide to streamline process to receive COVID-19 test kits
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 29, 2020
The federal government has released new tools meant to reduce paperwork and streamline the certification application process for assisted living providers seeking Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments...
5 trends will ‘future-proof’ senior living industry in 2021, leaders say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 19, 2021
Senior living thought leaders who gathered this past fall have sketched the framework of the “new normal” of housing and services for older adults, outlining five trends to “future-proof” the industry...
Assisted living should be included in solution to COVID-19 crisis in long-term care, AMDA exec says
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 21, 2020
For all of its tragic outcomes, COVID-19 “presents an opportunity to do things differently and looking more systematically at large-scale solutions to care for older adults,” Christopher Laxton, executive...
Long-term care financing success requires federal program, coverage across continuum: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 08, 2022
A new federal benefit that would include taxpayer subsidies and cover the continuum of long-term care services, including residential care and home- and community-based services, would address some of...
Pandemic stressors, challenges unique to assisted living create leadership opportunities
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 25, 2021
We’re not out of the woods yet. Jeff Gorter, vice president of clinical crisis response at Byron Center, MI-based R3 Continuum, kicked off a webinar on Tuesday for the American Assisted Living Nurses...
Consumer approach will help senior living stay relevant, entrepreneur says
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 15, 2021
Senior living needs to consider providing elements of the consumer experience to remain relevant, Eric George,M.D., founder and CEO of ERG Enterprises and an entrepreneur, wrote Monday in an article for...
61 percent of assisted living operators say workforce issues might force them to close
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 23, 2021
Sixty-one percent of assisted living operators responding to a recent survey by the American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living said they fear that workforce issues will force...
White House recognizes assisted living’s ‘critical importance’ as aging services provider
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 05, 2021
An announcement from the federal government about the release of $1.4 billion in funding from the American Rescue Plan for programs affecting older adults for the first time acknowledges assisted living...
Implementing three policy recommendations, with short-term and longer-term steps, would increase access to home- and community-based services, reduce institutional bias in the Medicaid program, and create...
As COVID-19 vaccine mandate challenges play out, assisted living providers are stuck in ‘doughnut hole’...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 02, 2021
A federal COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate was hit with another lawsuit Monday, which challenged the government’s authority to issue such a mandate and called the mandate a “gross abuse” of government...