(Credit: professionalStudioImages / Getty Images) The controversial practice of allowing Massachusetts assisted living nurses to provide skilled nursing care might become permanent if a proposed…
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(Credit: Kiwis / Getty Images) In cities and states across the country, assisted living communities and nursing homes that call their local fire departments for…
(Credit: hapabpa /Getty Images) Although appreciative of efforts to improve long-term care, Delaware’s senior living groups said that a package of recently introduced bills falls…
(Credit: designer491 / Getty Images) A settlement that ends a senior living community’s arbitration agreement “secrecy clauses” is being called a “big win” by Arizona’s…
(Credit: Prostock-Studio / Getty Images) A proposed compromise bill supported by senior living groups, as well as other stakeholders, would allow staffing flexibilities in assisted…
Proposed law would impose federal reporting requirements on assisted living providers … Feb. 29 is deadline to participate in professional liability study … Iowa lawmakers…
(Credit: miodrag ignjatovic / Getty Images) The recent closure of a large skilled nursing facility in Missouri has led to a bill that proposes minimum…
(Credit: courtneyk / Getty Images) Two proposed bills that have the backing of Florida’s senior living industry would limit liability claims against “passive investors” who…
(Credit: Gajus / Getty Images) Three Arizona senior living and care advocacy organizations are partnering to promote “common sense solutions” for long-term care and counter…
(Credit: designer491 / Getty Images) The family of an assisted living resident who filed a wrongful death lawsuit is bound by an arbitration agreement signed…
(Credit: aaaaimages / Getty Images) As assisted living providers struggle to provide services to Medicaid home- and community-based services beneficiaries, industry leaders from two states…
(Credit: Maskot / Getty Images) The creation of on-site child care services in some of Nebraska’s assisted living communities as well as nursing homes would…
Avel eCare telemedicine cart. (Image courtesy of Avel eCare) Expanding access to telehealth is the goal of a proposed bill in South Dakota that would…
(Credit: ilbusca / Getty Images) The pandemic helped demonstrate the importance of telehealth access to older adults, and even years removed from COVID-19’s US rampage,…
(Credit: courtneyk / Getty Images) Connecticut senior living industry leaders, after working with the state, said they now back a bill outlining consumer protections in…
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. (Credit: Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) A proposed $11.7 million investment in Pennsylvania’s master plan on aging…
Maryland State House in Annapolis. (Credit: gregobagel / Getty Images) A bill aimed at nursing home staff could potentially have negative effects on Maryland assisted…
(Credit: Fokusiert / Getty Images) A new initiative “cleverly framed to sound like a reasonable change” to allow people to opt out of Washington state’s…
(Credit: Vladimir Vladimirov / Getty Images) Independent living residents in Washington state, through a series of proposed bills, are hoping to gain access to the…
Bill would expand residency eligibility in state veterans’ homes to servicepeople’s spouses, parents
Bill would expand residency eligibility in state veterans’ homes to servicepeople’s spouses, parents
(Credit: annebaek / Getty Images) A proposed bill in Florida would expand eligibility for residency at state-run veterans’ homes to include spouses or surviving spouses…