Monthly Archives: March 2025

Senior Care Policy Brief: MedPAC’s 2025 Medicare Payment Recommendations

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The Senior Care Policy Briefing covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research.

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March 31, 2025.

This issue of the Policy Brief focuses on the Medicare Payment […]

LTCCC Alert: 2024 Double G Citations: Significant Increase in Nursing Home Noncompliance and Penalties

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March 27, 2025 – Substandard care, abuse, and neglect are persistent and widespread problems in nursing homes, primarily due to inadequate enforcement of minimum safety standards. To help combat this, the federal Centers for Medicare & […]

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LTCCC’s Statement for Hearing on Ensuring Access to Quality Post-Acute Care

Millions of Americans rely on post-acute care following hospitalization, receiving services from nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, long-term care hospitals, home health providers, and hospices. The U.S. House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee recently held a hearing to assess Medicare beneficiaries’ access to these essential services and the financial stability of providers. LTCCC submitted the below […]

Remembering, Reflecting, and Reforming: COVID-19’s Legacy in Long-Term Care

March 19, 2025 – As we mark the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) reflects on the profound and lasting effects this crisis has had on nursing home residents and their families. The pandemic exposed deep-seated systemic failures in long-term care, leading to the tragic […]

Senior Care Policy Brief: Lasting Impacts of COVID-19 on Nursing Homes

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March 17, 2025.

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The Troubling Truth Behind ‘Average’ Nursing Home Care: Elder Justice “No Harm” Newsletter (Volume 7, Issue 2)

In the Elder Justice Newsletter, we highlight citations, including deficiencies related to abuse, neglect, and substandard care, that have been identified as not causing any resident harm. The goal of this brief newsletter is to shed light on the issue of so-called “no harm” deficiencies, which typically result in no fine or penalty to the nursing […]

LTCCC Alert: Increase the Personal Needs Allowance for New York Nursing Home Residents

Give Nursing Home Residents the Basics They Deserve—Raise the PNA

March 8, 2025 – The Personal Needs Allowance (PNA) in New York has been stuck at $50 per month for over three decades. The dignity of our elders and individuals with disabilities should never be compromised by financial hardship, yet for too […]

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