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Senior Care Policy Brief: Undervalued and Underpaid

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November 15, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

Senior Care Policy Brief: Overbilling and Killing?

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October 31, 2024.

Overbilling and Killing? An Examination of the Skilled Nursing Industry […]

Senior Care Policy Brief: Resident Fees Go Up While Staffing Costs Go Down

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October 15, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

Senior Care Policy Brief: Residents Suffer, Investors Profit

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September 30, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

  • Senators Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal, Bernie Sanders, and Representative Jan […]

Senior Care Policy Brief: Nursing Home Lawsuits: Putting Profits Over Resident Safety & Dignity

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September 17, 2024.

Putting Profits Over Resident Safety and Dignity

The Brief recently highlighted the […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Profit or Peril?

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September 4, 2024.

PROFIT OR PERIL? THE NURSING HOME INDUSTRY’S MIXED MESSAGES

  • While many […]

LTCCC Alert: New Multilingual Family Council Resources Available at NursingHome411

When families and friends of nursing home residents join together, they can be a powerful force for improving care and ensuring dignity.

Today, LTCCC is releasing family council resources in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Korean, and Simplified Chinese to better serve diverse communities.

About the Resources

Family councils play a crucial role in ensuring quality care […]

LTCCC Alert: Supporting Your Constituents During a Nursing Home Stay

August 23, 2024 – To support legislators and elected officials in their efforts to better assist their constituents during nursing home stays, LTCCC is releasing a new guide, Supporting Your Constituents During a Nursing Home Stay: A Guide for Legislators and Elected Officials. This comprehensive guide aims to equip officials with essential knowledge and resources […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Razor-Thin Margins or Record Quarters?

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August 15, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Grand Health Care Settles $21M Fraud Allegations

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July 31, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

LTCCC Alert: New Data on Nursing Home Citations and Penalties

July 18, 2024 – The Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) has released new, interactive data tools with the latest federal information on nursing home citations and penalties. These user-friendly datasets are critical for understanding enforcement actions in nursing homes and evaluating the quality of care provided to […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Big Chain, Big Profits

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July 15, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

  • An operator of several unlicensed assisted living homes in Texas, […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: False Claims and Kickbacks

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June 28, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

LTCCC Alert: Non-Nursing Staff Crucial for Quality Care in Nursing Homes

June 26, 2024 – The public’s attention to nursing home staffing generally focuses on nurse staff, which makes sense because those are the individuals who are providing direct care to residents. However, non-care staff play an essential role in the quality and safety of a nursing home and the services provided to residents. LTCCC […]

LTCCC Alert: One in Four US Nursing Homes a “Problem Facility”

June 21, 2024 – 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 with federal data on five-star ratings, ownership type, enforcement, and other important information for the nearly 15,000 U.S. nursing homes in the federal CMS dataset. […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Special Issue: A Case Study on Nursing Home Promises vs. Reality

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June 17, 2024.

A CASE STUDY ON NURSING HOME PROMISES VS. REALITY

Many nursing homes […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Lawsuit Against Staffing Mandate Could Perpetuate Chronic Understaffing in Nursing Homes

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May 31, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Industry Profits & Payouts Belie Claims of Low Margins

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May 15, 2024.

NEWSFLASH: INDUSTRY PROFITS & PAYOUTS BELIE CLAIMS OF LOW MARGINS, INABILITY TO […]

Fact Sheet: Tips For Providing Input on Your Nursing Home’s Staffing Assessment

To help address persistent and widespread nursing home problems, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a rule on April 22, 2024, requiring, for the first time, that nursing homes provide minimum numbers of nursing staff time per resident. In addition, the rule requires that facilities implement an “efficient process for consistently […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: CMS Finalizes Nursing Home Staffing Rule

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April 30, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

The Federal Nursing Home Staffing Standard

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On April 22, 2024, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its final rule mandating minimum nurse staffing in every nursing home that accepts Medicaid and/or Medicare funds. This includes virtually all U.S. nursing homes.

This page provides information and resources for the […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Nationally High Death Rates

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April 15, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

LTCCC Alert: New Federal Reports Raise Alarms About Fundamental Nursing Home Resident Rights

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April 4, 2024 – The inappropriate transfer or discharge of nursing home residents has been a longstanding concern for residents, their families, and policymakers. Far too often, residents are pushed out of their nursing home – which is their home – for inappropriate and illegal reasons. This can […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Diverting Public Funds for Personal Profit

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March 29, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

Senior Care Policy Briefing: The Importance of Consistent Staffing

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March 15, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Neglect Amidst Profit

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February 29, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Nursing Homes Admit Misdiagnosing Schizophrenia

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February 15, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

  • Frontline workers, often Black or Hispanic, experienced high mortality rates […]

LTCCC Alert: Unveiling Nursing Home Realities: Check Out Our Newsletters

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February 13, 2024 – Nursing home residents are among the most vulnerable members of our society. However, the nursing homes in which they live are often riddled with neglect, abuse, and substandard care. Addressing these issues is paramount for ensuring that nursing home residents receive the highest […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Absence of Federal Standards for Assisted Living

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February 2, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

  • The United States Senate Special Committee on Aging held a […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Abuse, Neglect, and Fraud

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January 19, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Substantial Hidden Profits

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December 28, 2023.

NEWSFLASH

  • The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommends a

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Transparency Is Not a Substitute for Accountability

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December 19, 2023.

NEWSFLASH

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Negligence Unchecked

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November 30, 2023.

NEWSFLASH

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Crying Wolf or Wolves of Wall Street?

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November 15, 2023. 

NEWSFLASH

  • Nursing home lobbyists claim that facilities are struggling and […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Plenty of $$ For Safe Staffing

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October 31, 2023.

NEWSFLASH

  • Florida nursing home owner Philip Esformes is headed back […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: About a Dollar a Day

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October 15, 2023.

NEWSFLASH

  • About a Dollar […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: D+ for Quality of Care

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September 30, 2023.

NEWSFLASH

  • Americans give nursing homes a D+ for quality of care, […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Wholly Inadequate Proposal

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September 15, 2023.

NEWSFLASH

  • On September 1, CMS released the long-awaited minimum nursing home […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Rosy Revenues for Operators

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The Senior Care Policy Briefing covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research. Topics in this edition include:

  • Nursing home operators report high profits.
  • Survey finds 50% of nurses have side jobs to earn extra income.
  • Nursing home industry blames severe […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Consumer Costs Up, Quality Down

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The Senior Care Policy Briefing covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research. Topics in this edition include:

  • Nursing home lobbyists pushing for low or no safe staffing standards.
  • Survey showing 93% of older adults plan to age in place.

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Profits Over Patients

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The Senior Care Policy Briefing covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research. Topics in this edition include:

  • President Biden calls for additional support for long-term care workers and family caregivers.
  • Private equity firms continue to divert […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Assisted Living Facilities Evicting Medicaid Residents

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The Senior Care Policy Briefing covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research. Topics in this edition include:

  • Assisted living facilities evicting Medicaid residents.
  • Medicaid revenue at an all-time high.
  • OIG report finds significant under-reporting to public […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Concerning Patterns in Hospice Care

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The Senior Care Policy Briefing covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research. Topics in this edition include:

  • Medicaid Fraud Control Unit cases resulted in 1,327 convictions for fraud, abuse, or neglect in 2022.
  • Patients left in […]

Webinar: Building the Backbone: How Stronger State CNA Requirements Can Lead to Better Nursing Home Care

Presenters:
Richard Mollot (Executive Director, LTCCC)
Adrianna Duggan (JD Candidate, Yale Law)

[…]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: ‘Another Record Quarter…’

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The Senior Care Policy Briefing covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research. Topics in this edition include:

  • The Ensign Group reports another record quarter.
  • NY lawsuits revealing allegations of millions of siphoned profits.
  • An OIG report […]

New Year, New Newsletter

Happy new year, reader! Thank you for your new or continued support of our mission. This year, we are changing up the quarterly LTC Journal to deliver you more timely information on a monthly basis and to better keep you up to date about what’s happening at NursingHome411! If you haven’t already, be sure […]

Joint Statement: MACPAC Report Calls for Increased Transparency in How Nursing Homes Spend Medicaid Dollars

Report Supports Nursing Home Resident Advocates’ Call for Increased Transparency in Nursing Home Finances

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 […]

Poisoned: Elder Justice “No Harm” Newsletter (Volume 4, Issue 6)

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 […]

22 of 2022: LTCCC’s Favorite Nursing Home Reports of the Year

2022 has been a pivotal year in long-term care and we at LTCCC are grateful for all those who have been writing and reporting about the important issues along the way.

That’s why we’re sharing 22 of our favorite articles of 2022 (plus, a few extras!). Below is a list of investigative stories, government reports, and […]

Fall 2022 LTC Journal

The LTC Journal covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research. Topics in this edition include:

  • New federal guidance for nursing home surveyors to strengthen safety and accountability.
  • LTCCC’s Q1 2022 staffing report showing nursing home staff turnover at 53.3%.
  • A report detailing how real estate […]

‘Ouch, you’re hurting me’: Elder Justice “No Harm” Newsletter (Volume 4, Issue 5)

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 […]

‘I am afraid’: Elder Justice “No Harm” Newsletter (Volume 4, Issue 4)

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 […]

Summer 2022 LTC Journal

The LTC Journal covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research. Topics in this edition include:

  • Unsafe antipsychotic alternatives on the rise.
  • Louisiana nursing home owner arrested for felony fraud and cruelty.
  • RN staffing levels down 12% in 2021.
  • Infection control compromised during pandemic.

Spring 2022 LTC Journal

The Spring LTC Journal is here! The LTC Journal covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research. Topics in this edition include:

  • Important White House nursing home initiatives.
  • Insights and recommendations for direct care minimum spending laws.
  • NY Department of Health’s […]

Nursing Homes Fail US Veterans: Elder Justice “No Harm” Newsletter (Volume 4, Issue 3)

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 […]

‘There’s just no time for those things’: Elder Justice “No Harm” Newsletter (Volume 4, 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 […]

Winter 2022 LTC Journal

The Winter LTC Journal is here! The LTC Journal covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research. Topics in this edition include:

  • How lax enforcement exposes residents to substandard care.
  • Latest data show nursing homes failing to provide sufficient staffing.
  • Federal […]

‘The food was always cold’: Elder Justice “No Harm” Newsletter (Volume 4 Issue 1)

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 rarely result in fines or […]

LTCCC Alert: NY Nursing Homes Admit Excess Profits

Industry Lawsuit Details Over $500 Million Per Year Diverted from Resident Care

January 21, 2022 – At the end of December, more than 200 nursing homes filed a federal lawsuit against New York State, seeking to stop implementation of a new state law on nursing home spending. That law, which passed with strong, state-wide support […]

LTCCC Alert: Did These Deficiencies Actually Cause No Harm? You Decide.

December 23, 2021 – LTCCC publishes a bimonthly newsletter highlighting nursing home “no harm” deficiencies from across the United States. Today, we’re releasing a new report featuring all of the Elder Justice Newsletters published in 2021 and a user-friendly guide detailing the 32 “no harm” deficiencies covered this past year. Users can sort the […]

2021: Elder Justice “No Harm” Deficiencies

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 2021. You may also access individual issues using the […]

Webinar: Broken Promises: An Assessment of Federal Data on Nursing Home Oversight

Presenter: Eric Goldwein, LTCCC

PowerPoint Slides (PDF) Broken Promises: An Assessment of Nursing Home Oversight LTCCC’s Recommendations to improve enforcement

‘Please help me’: Elder Justice “No Harm” Newsletter (Volume 3 Issue 10)

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 […]

Fall 2021 LTC Journal

The Fall LTC Journal is here! The LTC Journal covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research. Topics in this edition include:

  • A letter to NY Governor Kathy Hochul calling for action to protect long-term care residents.
  • LTCCC’s Q1 2021 staffing report showing failures to […]

Death by Asphyxiation: Elder Justice “No Harm” Newsletter (Volume 3 Issue 8)

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 […]

Weeks Without a Shower: Elder Justice “No Harm” Newsletter (Volume 3 Issue 6)

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 […]

Nursing Home Provider Info: April 2020

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 […]

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