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 […]
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 […]
President Biden has promised to reform nursing homes by setting a national minimum staffing standard. Unfortunately, the proposed rule is woefully inadequate to meet residents’ needs. To highlight these concerns, LTCCC has gathered comments from a wide […]
President Biden has promised to reform nursing homes by setting a national minimum staffing standard. Unfortunately, the proposed rule is woefully inadequate to meet residents’ needs. LTCCC submitted the below comments, and although the public comment period concluded, there’s still time to make your voice heard.
Please consider sharing your comments with your Senators and […]
April 14, 2023
Re: CMS-6084-P; Disclosures of Ownership and Additional Disclosable Parties Information for Skilled Nursing Facilities and Nursing Facilities
Submitted electronically: www.regulations.gov
Dear Administrator Brooks-LaSure:
The Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) is a national non-profit organization dedicated to improving care, quality of life, and dignity for residents in nursing […]
January 6, 2023 – On January 3, 2023, MACPAC, a non-partisan legislative branch agency that provides policy and data analysis and makes recommendations to Congress on Medicaid programs, issued a report finding that without increased transparency in how nursing homes […]
Concrete, clear, and appropriate minimum staffing standards are needed now to finally realize the promise of the Nursing Home Reform Law in the lives of residents and the vast majority of American families who will depend on nursing home services at some time or another. In April 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services […]
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).
