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Senior Care Policy Brief: Social Media Abuse

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December 16, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

Senior Care Policy Brief: Manipulating the Reimbursement System

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December 4, 2024.

NEWSFLASH

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

Speak Out in Support of a Safe Minimum Staffing Standard

President Biden has promised to reform nursing homes by setting a national minimum staffing standard. Though nursing homes have been required to have “sufficient staff” to meet each resident’s needs, this is the first time that a president has proposed setting a numerical standard for the minimum number of nurses and aides that a facility […]

2023-11-06T16:59:33-05:00Action Center|

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 and conditions that are demeaning and inhumane. As the country has witnessed in the COVID-19 pandemic, too many nursing homes are […]

Congressional Briefing: Essential Insights on Nursing Home Staffing & Standards

Essential Insights on Nursing Home Staffing and the Proposed Federal Standard, presented by: Center for Medicare Advocacy, Long Term Care Community Coalition, and National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care (September 2023).

Presenters: Richard Mollot (LTCCC), Sam Brooks (Consumer Voice),  Toby Edelman (Center for Medicare Advocacy), Charlene Harrington (University of […]

Senior Care Policy Briefing: Americans Want Safe Staffing

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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 nursing home industry bemoans rising costs of infection control.
  • Study finds staffing shortages linked to increase in resident deaths.
  • A new poll […]

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.

LTCCC Comments to CMS on Minimum Staffing Standard

Concrete, clear, and appropriate minimum staffing standards are needed now to finally realize the promise of the Nursing Home Reform Law in the lives of residents and the vast majority of American families who will depend on nursing home services at some time or another. In April 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services […]

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 homes may spend on […]

LTCCC Alert: Build Back Better NEEDS Essential Staffing Standards

Tell your senators that residents NEED essential staffing standards in Build Back Better.

December 17, 2021 – A sufficiently staffed nursing home fosters an environment where residents can attain and maintain their highest practicable physical, emotional, and psychosocial well-being. All too often, however, nursing homes fail to provide the necessary levels of skilled nursing […]

2023-08-01T13:06:59-04:00New York, Oregon|
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