CMS changes quality measure set for home- and community-based services
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 15, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced changes to the quality measure set for home- and community-based services and described reporting requirements for Money Follows the Person grant...
Signed appropriations package includes $100 million funding increase for dementia research
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 25, 2024
A fiscal year 2024 appropriations package signed Saturday by President Biden will increase funding by $100 million for research into Alzheimer’s and other dementias at the National Institutes of Health...
Senior living can be a partner in delivering, improving care, CMS official says
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 07, 2024
Even though senior living providers, by law, are unable to directly bill the Medicare program for the services they provide to residents, they are able to partner with other organizations focused on value-based...
Mandatory rent control would undermine housing goals, says provider coalition including ASHA
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 14, 2023
Mandatory rent control and rent stabilization policies like the ones under consideration by the federal government “have proven time and time again to increase rents, reduce the capital needed to boost...
DOJ accuses South Carolina of unnecessarily segregating adults with mental illness in assisted living
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 10, 2023
The state of South Carolina violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by unnecessarily segregating adults with serious mental illness in assisted living communities, the US Department of Justice said...
COVID, workforce, financial issues confront senior living providers as 2023 starts, leaders say
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 03, 2023
Addressing the burnout plaguing existing employees while working to entice others to join the industry will be a focus of providers in 2023.
Big senior living stories of 2022
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Lois A. Bowers
Dec 22, 2022
Here are some of the major stories that affected senior living providers in 2022.
Assisted living employers should consider mandates for flu, COVID vaccinations, boosters, CDC says
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 24, 2022
Assisted living and other long-term care and healthcare employers should recommend vaccination against influenza and COVID-19 to their employees and should consider requiring employees to obtain the vaccines,...
43 recommendations help fill gap in medical and mental healthcare guidance for assisted living, experts...
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 03, 2022
Forty-three recommendations from a new study will guide medical and mental healthcare in assisted living, the authors say.
Residents’ chronic conditions could push operators to integrate care, housing: study
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 15, 2022
WASHINGTON, DC — US senior living residents average more than a dozen chronic conditions each, and many residents use high-cost healthcare services, suggesting ways that operators can integrate care...