Financial insecurity ‘snowballing’ among older adults
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 01, 2024
Eighty percent of Americans aged 60 or more years face financial insecurity about paying for long-term care or weathering financial emergencies, according to a report published last week by the National...
Bipartisan bill would ease long-term care workforce shortage, advocates say, but ‘there’s more to...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 04, 2024
Legislation introduced last week by Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Morgan McGarvey (D-NY) aims to boost the nation’s shortage of nurses, nurse aides and other healthcare professionals.
New updates to OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard in effect
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 22, 2024
Updates to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom) went into effect last month, with a compliance deadline set for 2026.
HUD proposes closing qualified contract loophole for LIHTC transactions
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 19, 2024
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed guidance meant to close the qualified contract loophole in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program for Federal Housing Administration multifamily...
LeadingAge applauds HUD’s proposed updates to affordable housing block grant program
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 12, 2024
Members of the Preservation Working Group, including LeadingAge, recently applauded the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s proposal to update program rules for the HOME Investment Partnerships...
Trust in nonprofits rebounding after four years of decline
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 02, 2024
After four years of decline, trust in nonprofit organizations is trending up, according to a recently released report about a survey by the Independent Sector.
Long-term care workers must be vaccinated by Jan. 4 under OSHA, CMS rules
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 05, 2021
Jan. 4 is the COVID-19 vaccination deadline for employees in companies that have 100 or more workers, as well as for employees of long-term care facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid, according...
Senators re-introduce legislation to improve vetting, training of caregivers in nursing homes
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 15, 2022
Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Tim Scott (R-SC) re-introduced legislation Monday designed to help nursing homes improve their vetting and training of caregivers to help ensure resident safety.
‘Commonsense immigration reform’ still a key to addressing workforce shortages in long-term care
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 23, 2021
The long-term care industry Friday may have hit a bump in pinning some of its hopes on immigration to ease the ongoing workforce shortages, as the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that...
USCIS reaches limit for additional returning worker H-2B visas
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 04, 2023
US Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated cap for the additional 16,500 H-2B visas made available for returning workers for the early second...