LTCCC Testimony: Assembly Public Hearing on Long Term Care Ombudsman Program
At New York's Assembly Public Hearing on the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program on March 2, 2023, LTCCC Policy Researcher Stefan Foster discusses why New York's Long Term Care Ombudsman Program (LTCOP) needs more funding to [...]
LTCCC Testimony: NY Joint Legislative Public Hearing on 2023 Executive Budget Proposal
Roughly 117,000 people reside in nursing homes in New York State. Unfortunately, these vulnerable individuals are far too often subjected to substandard care, abuse, and neglect. At the New York Joint Legislative [...]
Webinar: NY Attorney General Enforcement Actions
Presenters: Amy Held (Director of NYS AG's MFCU) & Thom O'Hanlon (Chief of Criminal Investigations in NYS AG’s MFCU) PowerPoint Slides (PDF) Abuse, Neglect, & Crime Reporting Center Medicaid Fraud [...]
NYS LTCOP Conference 2022: Elder Justice Past, Present, and Future
Click program titles to access PDFs of presentations from the 2022 New York State Long Term Care Ombudsman Program (LTCOP) conference, "Elder Justice Past, Present, and Future." For more information about NYS LTCOP, visit https://aging.ny.gov/long-term-care-ombudsman-program. [...]
New York COVID-19 Fatality Data: Nursing Homes & Adult Care Facilities
As of May 2022, LTCCC is no longer updating this page. Visit NY Health website for updated COVID-19 data. LTCCC is providing a user-friendly spreadsheet tracking COVID-19-related deaths from New York's nursing homes (NHs), [...]
Memo in Support of NY’s A196-S1576: Protect Seniors and People With Disabilities
50,000 seniors and people with disabilities live in New York’s adult care facilities (ACFs). One in four of them receive SSI and/or the state supplement (SSP). These numbers are expected to grow as New York [...]
Memo in Support of New York State Legislature Bills A05842/S05269
Time for NY to Invest in Maximum Nursing Home care, Not Maximum Operator Profits Download PDF of this memo. Federal requirements mandate that nursing homes have sufficient staff, with the appropriate competencies, to meet [...]
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 [...]
LTCCC Memo: Private Right of Actions in Residential Health Care Facilities (A00159/S00995)
Background The Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving care and quality of life for residents in long-term care. LTCCC strongly supports Assembly Bill A00159/Senate Bill S00995, [...]