A two-month battle with COVID-19 left staff and residents of Cherry Springs Village battered. Now the assisted living community is asking lawmakers not to leave them behind.
Maribeth Bersani, chief operating officer of Argentum, is a member of the 2020 McKnight’s Women of Distinction Hall of Honor.
Pat Mulloy has held the top post at three senior living and care organizations. “Helping people leave this planet with some level of dignity and grace and having a meaningful experience in the last home they have, that’s important work,” he says.
Congress should take “immediate steps” to get needed personal protective equipment to assisted living communities, nursing homes, home- and community-based settings and other places where older adults receive care, Dana Marie Kennedy, state director for AARP Arizona, told members of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee on Thursday. She was a hearing witness speaking on behalf of the national AARP organization.
Argentum has selected 27 professionals as part of its inaugural cohort for its senior living industry leadership development program.
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Senior living and care industry representatives are speaking out against racial inequity in response to rising protests across the country following the death of George Floyd and data on COVID-19 cases in long-term care disproportionately affecting minority residents.
The impact of COVID-19 on the senior living industry could be $40 billion to $50 billion over the next year, Argentum President and CEO James Balda said Wednesday in a Yahoo Finance interview.
“Smart” COVID-19 testing protocols are needed to mitigate infection rates in senior living communities, a new white paper states, and Argentum and the senior living operators it represents are looking to partner with federal and state policymakers to create them.
Nobody in long-term care is begrudging skilled nursing facilities for the $4.9 billion that began flowing to providers on Friday to fight effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but associations are asking federal and state governments not to forget senior living operators.
