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State rep files bill to ban vaccine mandates in Oklahoma … Fitch Ratings affirms Meadowood long-term rating at BBB; outlook stable … Kraus-Anderson completes $24M SNF in MN … New Perspective, Boldt...

A new law implementing mandatory penalties for repeated building code violations was signed into law just months after a deadly assisted living fire in New York led to the deaths of a firefighter and a...

Opponents of a mandatory payroll tax to fund Washington state’s new long-term care program filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday in federal court. The measure aims to stop the January start of the payroll...

Michigan’s Healthcare Workforce Sustainability Alliance is asking the Michigan legislature for $650 million to help offset staffing shortages. The funds would be directed toward rewarding current...

Before even two days had passed after the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued COVID-19 vaccination requirements Thursday, a federal appeals court temporarily blocked...

Connecticut assisted living communities that fail to comply with an executive order mandating staff COVID-19 vaccinations could face up to $15 million in penalties.

A proposed constitutional amendment on Tuesday’s ballot in Texas would allow assisted living and other long-term care residents the ability to designate an “essential caregiver” for in-person visitation,...

A ballot issue passed yesterday in Texas will amend the state’s constitution to allow residents of nursing homes and assisted living communities to designate “essential caregivers” who could not...

The WA Cares program, designed to help Washington state residents pay for long-term care, will go into effect in January, but legislators have challenges to address in the meantime.

A three-panel federal appeals court on Friday removed a lower court’s temporary injunction that had allowed healthcare workers to seek religious exemptions to New York state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.