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, [...]
Alert: Nearly 1 in 5 NY Residents Receive Antipsychotic Drugs
Click to download user-friendly data on AP drugging rates for NY nursing homes in Q2 2021. February 23, 2022 – Inappropriate antipsychotic (AP) drugging is a pervasive problem in nursing homes across New York [...]
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 [...]