DOJ: People with serious mental illness unnecessarily segregated in assisted living communities
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 16, 2024
Nebraska is “unnecessarily” segregating people who have serious mental illness in assisted living communities and day programs, violating federal disability laws, according to the Justice Department.
State’s regulators under fire for not imposing ‘meaningful’ punishment on operators
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 04, 2023
If provider punishments in Maine ramp up in the near future, operators won’t need to look far for the catalyst.
NY assisted living providers hopeful for rate bump for Medicaid-funded program
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 20, 2024
While New York State nursing homes are hoping to make up Medicaid funding shortfalls 16 years in the making, senior living providers are hopeful that a comparable Medicaid increase for the Medicaid-funded...
Senators propose three ways to address senior living workforce challenges
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 13, 2023
State lawmakers in Pennsylvania have promised to advance a package of bills that would address workforce challenges among senior living and other long-term care providers in the Keystone State.
COVID-19 supplemental payments can’t solve ‘fragile state’ of direct care workforce, groups say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 02, 2023
Some assisted living and other long-term care providers in Maine will be receiving a share of $25 million to help their continued recovery from the pandemic, just as a report announces that the state’s...
Act prioritizes fight against Alzheimer’s disease with state plan
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 12, 2023
South Carolina’s adoption of a state Alzheimer’s plan is a “step forward,” according to senior living advocates.
State updates assisted living rules; operators no longer automatically can turn away wheelchair users
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 02, 2023
New York assisted living operators no longer automatically can turn away prospective residents who use wheelchairs, according to the state health department.
Prison sentences don’t reflect ‘horror’ doled out to workers by residential care facility owners,...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 10, 2023
Multi-year prison sentences on human trafficking and labor-related charges were handed down Wednesday for three members of a family that owned and operated adult residential care facilities in California.
Law places ‘unprecedented restrictions’ on ownership agreements: provider groups
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 23, 2022
A new law is touting job protections for New Jersey healthcare workers when facility ownership changes hands. But state long-term care organizations say the “unprecedented restrictions” contained in...
Good Samaritan, Ebenezer parents delay proposed merger amid concerns
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 14, 2023
The parent organizations of the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society and Ebenezer Senior Living have extended the timeline of their proposed merger by two months following calls for a delay by the...