Genworth launches first LTC insurance plan in 5 years as Washington state residents consider ‘crazy’...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 12, 2024
The one-year anniversary of the effective date of Washington’s first-in-the nation mandatory, tax-based long-term care insurance program passed on July 1, but voters will have the opportunity to...
27 states to raise minimum wage in 2023
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 03, 2023
Twenty-seven states rang in the new year with increases or planned increases to their minimum wage rate. Most took effect Jan. 1, but others will become effective later in the year.
Legislation proposes $5.5M in ARPA funds to boost assisted living workforce
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 25, 2022
The Nebraska Unicameral Legislature is considering legislation that would direct more than $5.5 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to assisted living communities to promote employee recruitment...
New law expedites timeliness of reporting infections
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 09, 2022
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed legislation Wednesday that requires nursing homes to provide residents, authorized family members and guardians “timely notice” when an infection is detected.
Court to determine employer liability when workers take COVID-19 home to families
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 26, 2022
Can a spouse or family member of an employee sue you if the worker brings COVID-19 into the home?
New York deploys 120 National Guard medics, medical technicians to long-term care facilities
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 14, 2021
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) last week more than doubled the number of deployed National Guard medical teams to aid nursing homes in the Empire State facing staffing shortages amid surging COVID-19 infections.
Governors home in on SNF resident care, performance
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 20, 2021
Skilled nursing facilities’ care of residents and performance are the focus of actions by governors on both coasts as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
New York first state to require employers to offer paid prenatal leave
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 24, 2024
New York is set to become the first state to require employers to provide 20 hours of additional paid time off for pregnant workers for pregnancy-related medical care without requiring workers to tap into...
Bill aims to protect nursing home residents during infectious disease outbreaks
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 21, 2022
The New Jersey Assembly’s Aging and Senior Services Committee, on Thursday passed a bill “Sally’s Law,” that aims to provide nursing home residents greater protections during periods of infectious...
ARPA funds still weeks away for assisted living, personal care providers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 14, 2023
Assisted living residences and personal care homes will have to wait a little longer for American Rescue Plan Act payments to be distributed under Pennsylvania’s Act 54 of 2022. The payments have been...