Register for LTCCC’s Feb. 15 webinar on assisted living policy.
Presenters: Richard Mollot (LTCCC Executive Director) and Eric Goldwein (LTCCC Policy & Communications Director). PowerPoint Slides (PDF)
The following is an alert for the Q2 2021 Antipsychotic Drugging Rates. To access the data, click here.
January 11, 2022
Register for LTCCC’s Feb. 15 webinar on assisted living policy.
Presenter: Eric Goldwein, LTCCC
PowerPoint Slides (PDF) Broken Promises: An Assessment of Nursing Home Oversight LTCCC’s Recommendations to improve enforcement
Let’s win! Support LTCCC’s mission to advocate for nursing home residents.
Dear Advocate,
Nursing home residents and their families have suffered immeasurable loss in the past two years. Loss of dignity. Loss of autonomy. Loss of time. And […]
LTCCC is providing a user-friendly spreadsheet (updated monthly) tracking COVID-19 vaccinations for residents and staff in U.S. nursing homes. Data are reported by nursing homes to the CDC and published by CMS.
Nursing Home Vaccination Data (Week Ending 12/5/21)
Source: https://data.cms.gov/covid-19/covid-19-nursing-home-data
Tell your senators that residents NEED essential staffing standards in Build Back Better.
December 17, 2021 – A sufficiently staffed nursing home fosters an environment where residents can attain and maintain their highest practicable physical, emotional, and psychosocial well-being. All too often, however, nursing homes fail to provide the necessary levels of skilled nursing […]
Presenters: LTCCC’s Richard Mollot (executive director) & Hayley Cronquist (policy attorney)
Download PPT Slides (PDF) A Guide to Nursing Home Oversight & Enforcement
We cannot allow the safety of vulnerable residents to be hijacked by cynical soundbites from powerful & wealthy industry lobbyists.
By definition, every licensed U.S. nursing home is required to provide skilled nursing care, supervision, and services 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Unfortunately, too many of our nursing […]
The following is an alert for the Q2 2021 staffing report. To access the report, click here.
November 16, 2021 – Nursing homes with higher staffing levels are better equipped to meet their residents’ care needs. Unfortunately, understaffing has been a widespread and persistent problem, especially since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today, LTCCC […]
Event Honoree: NYS AG Letitia James
Performance: Singer-songwriter and guitarist Bridget St. John.
Keynote speaker: Carmen Bowman, founder of Edu-Catering. Moderated by Deborah Truhowsky (President, LTCCC Board of Directors) & Richard Mollot (Executive Director, LTCCC). Program Brochure Download slides (PDF)
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NY ranks last in citation rates despite widespread substandard care and neglect.
Fundamentally, a state’s oversight of nursing home care boils down to two components: (1) its ability to identify and cite a facility when a failure to meet standards (i.e., a deficiency) exists and (2) its ability to appropriately rate the deficiencies […]
Federal Data Indicate That Longstanding Problems Are Systematically Ignored or Downgraded by the State Agencies Charged With Protecting Residents
Contact: Richard Mollot, richard@ltccc.org, 212-385-0356
October 29, 2021 – Today the Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) is releasing a new report, Broken Promises: An Assessment of Federal Data on Nursing Home Oversight, providing the results […]
Register for our November 23 webinar, A Guide to Nursing Home Oversight & Enforcement.
Presenter: Meryl Grenadier, attorney at AARP Foundation Litigation What rights are guaranteed by the Nursing Home Reform Act? What can residents do when their […]
September 30, 2021 – The Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) regularly publishes data on key indicators relevant to nursing home care. Today, LTCCC is releasing a new report containing federal data on five-star ratings, ownership type, enforcement, and other important information for all 15,000 U.S. nursing homes. The report features a page […]
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Presenter: Dave Kingsley, PhD
As we emerge from the pandemic, New York must address the epidemic of nursing home abuse and neglect.
COVID-19 has caused unprecedented devastation and tragedy in nursing homes. Years of understaffing, poor infection control, and ineffective […]
Please find below LTCCC’s comments on Rulemaking 10-221 (Long-Term Care Facilities, Proposed Rulemaking 1).
Dear Governor Hochul:
Welcome to your new office – we are excited to work with your administration to promote the health and well-being of New York seniors, disabled individuals, and families.
We are writing today to urge you to use your new office to act quickly to protect the lives and dignity of residents in nursing homes, […]
The following is an alert for the Q1 2021 staffing report. To access the report, click here.
LTCCC Executive Director Richard Mollot testified at a New York Senate Hearing, “Nursing Home, Assisted Living, and Homecare Workforce – Challenges and Solutions,” on July 27, 2021, highlighting key long-term care policy concerns including widespread inadequate staffing, the rise of for-profit industry, and the lack of oversight and accountability. Read the testimony below.
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Presenter: Tanya Kessler, senior staff attorney at Mobilization for Justice, Inc (MFJ) and author of “Involuntary Nursing Home Discharges: A Fast Track from Nursing […]
LTCCC is providing a user-friendly spreadsheet tracking COVID-19-related deaths from New York’s nursing homes (NHs), assisted living facilities (ALFs), and other adult care facilities (OACFs) based on New York Department of Health (DOH) data. This file includes data at the state, county, and facility level. As of July 12, 2021, there have […]
LTCCC is providing a user-friendly spreadsheet (updated monthly) tracking COVID-19 vaccinations for residents and staff in New York’s nursing homes (NHs) and assisted living facilities (ALFs). COVID-19 vaccination are self-reported and published by facilities daily via the New York State Department of Health’s (NY DOH) HERDS survey.
Download NY LTC COVID Vaccination Data (12/15/21)
Note: […]
Learn more about ombudsman volunteering opportunities! Feature Speakers
Judy Farrell, Tri County LTCOP Director
Gloria Murray, Hudson Valley LTCOP Director
Richard Mollot, LTCCC Executive Director
Barbara Stuck, Ombudsman Volunteer
Jenine Ferrari, Resident Advocate PowerPoint Slides (PDF)
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Feature speaker: Tena Alonzo, Dementia Care Expert
Tena Alonzo is a healthcare professional with expertise in caregiving practices for people with thinking or memory disorders. She has 35 years of experience as a long-term care provider […]
Download LTCCC’s recommendations for improving nursing home safety, dignity, and financial integrity or read the pdf below.
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Feature speaker: Richard Mollot, LTCCC executive director
Richard Mollot highlights key long-term care policy priorities including nursing home staffing, oversight, and financial transparency. Next, LTCCC’s Eric Goldwein provides information on accessing NursingHome411 resources including state pages, staffing data, podcasts, and webinars. […]
The following is an alert for the Q4 2020 staffing report. To access the report, click here.
LTCCC’s Q4 2020 Staffing Report provides user-friendly files for every state that include facility-level data on: 1) Care staff levels (RN, LPN, and CNA); 2) Important non-nursing staff levels, including administrators and activities staff; 3) Contract workers. The report also includes data on state and national quarterly staffing levels, state and national quarterly resident census […]
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Below is LTCCC’s statement about New York’s new staffing bill. See also: LTCCC’s joint press release with other consumer groups on the staffing bill. Consumer Groups: NY Staffing Bill Misses the Mark
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Feature speaker: Cathy Unsino, LCSW.
Residents thrive when helped to achieve their highest practicable level of physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being. When the requirements of the Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987 are realized, the colonial, custodial injustice of long-term care will finally end. In this […]
Select the button below to access a user-friendly excel file with facility level COVID-19 nursing home data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Visit CMS’s COVID-19 Nursing Home Data page for more information including maps illustrating facility and state-level data, and click here for tips on navigating the CMS report. […]
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Feature speaker: Eilon Caspi, PhD, gerontologist and dementia behavior specialist.
The following is an alert for LTCCC’s new nursing home data reports for 2021: Nursing Home Ratings & Info, and Problem Facilities. To access the report, click here.
Special Focus Facilities (SFFs) and SFF Candidates are nursing homes that have a history of serious quality issues or are included in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) program to stimulate improvements in their quality of care. One-star facilities are assigned the lowest overall rating (one out of five stars) based on health […]
This page contains facility-level data on all U.S. nursing homes including five-star ratings, ownership status, health inspection outcomes, and more. Download individual state files by clicking the state on the map or list below. Download nationwide data here.
Note: Data were obtained from the CMS website (https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/4pq5-n9py) on February 1, 2021 based on data […]
Feature speaker: Nina Loewenstein, attorney and advocate for long-term care reform Webinar Slides Audio
Click to download the letter or read it in the PDF below.
In the wake of the New York State Attorney General’s recent revelations about sky-high deaths and dangerous conditions in New York’s nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading resident and worker advocates are calling […]
The following is an alert for the Q3 2020 staffing report. To access the report, click here.
Each file includes information on: 1. Each facility’s RN, LPN, & CNA staffing levels; 2. Staffing levels for important non-nursing staff, including administrators and activities staff; and 3. […]
On this LTCCC webinar, special guest Beth Nivin, MPH, discusses the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. This program provides critical information to help LTC residents and their families make informed decisions about vaccination. Webinar Slides LTCCC’s vaccine resource center LTCCC Fact Sheet: Informed Consent […]
Download LTCC’s new policy brief, “LTC Medicaid Funding: Separating Fact from Fiction” or read directly from the document below.
The Elder Justice Newsletter provides examples of health violations in which surveyors (nursing home inspectors) identified neither harm nor immediate jeopardy to resident health, safety, or well-being. Below is a searchable issue guide that includes the “no harm” deficiencies featured in our Elder Justice Newsletter in 2020. You may also access individual issues using the […]
Watch LTCCC’s December 15 webinar “COVID-19 Update & Residents Rights: Family & Resident Councils, Filing Grievances,” in the video on this page. Slides (PDF) and audio can be accessed on the buttons below.
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Note: Not all facilities reported staffing data for Q1 2020 because of suspended reporting requirements due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (11,735 facilities reported staffing data in Q1 2020 vs. 14,969 in Q4 2020). State and national staffing averages for Q1 2020 exclude facilities that did not report.
Each file includes information on:
Watch a free webinar examining reform following the disastrous impact of COVID-19.
The event was co-sponsored by LTCCC, NYSBA’s Elder Law & Special Needs Section, and NYSBA’s Elder Law & Special Needs Section’s Task Force on Long Term Care Facility Reform & Oversight.
The program covered the fundamentals of the nursing home industry: its legal […]
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The Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) collects information on nursing home enforcement actions across NY State on a regular basis. This page features user-friendly excel files detailing sanctions for substandard care, resident abuse, and fraud for nursing homes in 2019. Click here for LTCCC’s media alert on NY enforcement for 2019. NYSDOH […]
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More information on LTC voting is available at nursinghome411.org/voting.
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The inappropriate antipsychotic drugging of nursing home residents is a widespread and serious problem. Below is information on the antipsychotic drugging rates for all licensed nursing homes, by state, for the fourth quarter of 2019. We also recommend viewing our Issue Alert on Antipsychotic Drugging and our Dementia Care Advocacy Toolkit, which includes […]
The inappropriate antipsychotic drugging of nursing home residents is a widespread and serious problem. Below is information on the antipsychotic drugging rates for all licensed nursing homes, by state, for the third quarter of 2019. We also recommend viewing our Issue Alert on Antipsychotic Drugging and our Dementia Care Advocacy Toolkit, which includes […]
Each file includes information on:
Below are links to download data on five-star ratings, special focus facility status, ownership status, health inspection outcomes, location, resident population, and other general information for all U.S. nursing homes. Download individual state files by clicking the state on the map below or in the list at the bottom of the page. Download data on […]
Each file includes information on:
To facilitate ease of […]
Staffing is widely considered to be the most important indicator of a nursing home’s safety and quality. This page provides the names of the top ten and bottom ten nursing homes in each state, based upon each facility’s average care staffing for 2019 Q3. Please visit our Nursing Home Data & Information page for […]
