LTCCC Alert: Increase the Personal Needs Allowance for New York Nursing Home Residents
Give Nursing Home Residents the Basics They Deserve—Raise the PNA March 8, 2025 - The Personal Needs Allowance (PNA) in New York has been stuck at $50 per month for [...]
Policy Brief: Nursing Home Funding Adequacy in New York
Tell policymakers: No more funding without real reform! Nursing home operators are seeking more taxpayer dollars—but without real accountability, increased funding won’t improve care for residents. Too often, facilities prioritize profits over people, leading [...]
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: 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. [...]
LTCCC Alert: New York Nursing Homes Profit as Residents Lose
Sign up for LTCCC Alerts Download a PDF of this alert. February 7, 2024 – Too many New York nursing home owners and operators are skimping on staffing and services, profiting [...]
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. [...]