Bill would expand provider National Practitioner Data Bank access to long-term care providers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 24, 2023
Legislation re-introduced last week by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) would expand access to the National Practitioner Data Bank to include long-term care providers such as nursing homes...
Providers need ‘meaningful aid,’ groups say as president unveils executive order
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 19, 2023
Building a pipeline of professional caregivers and then retaining them in long-term care are some of the goals of an executive order signed Tuesday by President Biden. Provider groups responded by calling...
More clarification, better definitions needed in CMS nursing home ownership rule, organizations say
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 19, 2023
The comment period ended Friday for a Department of Health and Human Service proposed nursing home ownership disclosure rule intended to make more clear ownership and management operations of facilities....
Medicare, Social Security financial shortfalls would ‘further cripple’ long-term care, advocates...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 03, 2023
Money issues facing the Medicare and Social Security programs could “further cripple the country’s fragile long-term care system,” LeadingAge President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan told the McKnight’s...
Providers continue to face workforce challenges as Careers in Aging Week arrives
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 27, 2023
The long-term care industry is celebrating frontline workers this week during Careers in Aging Week as they continue to face workforce shortages.
Bill seeks to fund 350 new service coordinators for affordable housing, more
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 19, 2022
The Expanding Service Coordinators Act, introduced Thursday by Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) would authorize funding for at least 350 new service coordinators, provide funding for training, require a Government...
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.
$1.3 million project aims to strengthen direct care workforce
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 05, 2022
A $1.3 million federal project, with funding spread out over five years, will establish a new center to help strengthen the direct care workforce providing home- and community-based services to older...
Long-term care leaders urge White House to intervene in anticompetitive staffing agency practices
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 27, 2022
Leaders from the country’s largest long-term care associations on Tuesday asked White House COVID-19 Response Team Coordinator Jeffrey Zients for “assistance with an anticompetitive practice with certain...
Nursing home advocates ask CMS to amend visitation guidelines as COVID-19 spikes
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 22, 2021
With the rapid spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus and a spike in COVID-19 infections overall nationwide, nursing home advocates are asking the federal government to allow providers more discretion...