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 [...]
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 [...]
LTCCC Alert: Antipsychotic Drugs Administered to More Than One in Five Nursing Home Residents
Click to download user-friendly, searchable data on AP drugging rates for Q4 2023. June 3, 2024 – Each week, dangerous antipsychotic (AP) drugs are administered to approximately 250,000 nursing home residents, often without clinical [...]
LTCCC Alert: New Federal Reports Raise Alarms About Fundamental Nursing Home Resident Rights
Download a PDF of this alert. 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, [...]
LTCCC Alert: Alarming Rate of Antipsychotic Drugging in US Nursing Homes
Click to download user-friendly data on AP drugging rates for NY nursing homes in Q3 2023. March 18, 2024 – Each week, roughly 250,000 nursing home residents are given dangerous antipsychotic (AP) drugs. [...]
24-Hour Registered Nurses in Nursing Homes: Affordable, Attainable, & Necessary
September 27, 2023 - Every U.S. nursing home is required to provide skilled nursing care and monitoring 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Unfortunately, too many of our nursing homes provide substandard care [...]
LTCCC Policy Brief: New York’s Direct Care Minimum Spending Ratio
In April 2021, a law was passed in New York establishing new requirements for how much the state’s nursing homes must spend on care for their residents and setting forth limits on what nursing [...]
Protect Voting Rights of Nursing Home Residents
More information on LTC voting is available at nursinghome411.org/voting.
