43 recommendations help fill gap in medical and mental healthcare guidance for assisted living, experts...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 03, 2022
Forty-three recommendations from a new study will guide medical and mental healthcare in assisted living, the authors say.
Healthcare professionals’ mental health, job satisfaction focus of new law
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 22, 2022
A bipartisan bill signed into law Friday by President Biden aims to reduce and prevent suicide, burnout, and mental and behavioral health conditions among healthcare professionals.
Move-in crucial time to support resident mental health, suicide study suggests
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 17, 2019
The lead author of a new study on suicides related to long-term care says the research is a call for operators to examine how they are supporting mental health among residents, especially those just moving...
DOJ accuses South Carolina of unnecessarily segregating adults with mental illness in assisted living
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 10, 2023
The state of South Carolina violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by unnecessarily segregating adults with serious mental illness in assisted living communities, the US Department of Justice said...
Updated: Welltower to move 147 ProMedica SNFs to Integra Health JV; ProMedica to continue to operate...
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Lois A. Bowers
Nov 07, 2022
Toledo, OH-based real estate investment trust Welltower will move 147 skilled nursing facilities currently operated by Toledo-based ProMedica Senior Care into a joint venture between Welltower and Integra...
AHCA/NCAL, 15 other groups pressure HHS to extend public health emergency
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Lois A. Bowers
May 12, 2022
The official start of summer is more than a month away, but 16 national organizations, including the American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living, were thinking of fall and the...
CDC: Mitigation measures, not symptom screening, ‘instrumental’ in preventing COVID-19 outbreaks...
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 06, 2020
Symptom screening is of limited use in identifying cases of COVID-19, so mitigation measures could be “instrumental” in preventing an outbreak in independent living and assisted living communities,...
HHS says new rule allows healthcare workers, organizations to honor religious and moral principles in...
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 03, 2019
Individual healthcare workers as well as healthcare organizations can decline to provide care that conflicts with their religious and moral beliefs or mission under a final rule issued Thursday by the...
Paul Ryan talks healthcare, immigration at NIC in first post-Congress speech
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Lois A. Bowers
Feb 22, 2019
The Medicaid and immigration programs will be reformed, and senior living and long-term care providers can help shape the outcome, former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) said during Thursday’s...
Fundamentally sound?
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 18, 2018
The big picture in seniors housing and care looks good, despite some recent setbacks, according to several experts.