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Healthcare Authority Newsletter - August 2024 #1

News Briefs - CMS Increases Acute Care Inpatient Hospital Payments by $2.9B - HHS has finalized the fiscal year 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System rule. The rule...more

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AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 6: Charting the Future of Nursing Home Staffing

In this episode, AGG Healthcare attorneys Lisa Churvis and Alan Horowitz discuss critical aspects of nursing home staffing requirements. Lisa and Alan delve into the implications of recent legislative proposals and regulatory...more

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Holding Nursing Homes Accountable: The Process of Filing a Lawsuit

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Our attorneys have seen firsthand the devastating impact that substandard care can have on nursing home residents and their families. If you or a loved one has suffered abuse or neglect in a nursing home in Delaware,...more

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Nursing Home Abuse/Neglect FAQs in Delaware

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1. What are the signs of nursing home abuse or neglect in Delaware? Signs of nursing home abuse and neglect can vary, but common indicators include physical injuries like bruises, cuts, or bedsores; sudden weight loss;...more

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Senior Living Alert – In the Thick of It: With Battles Raging in Statehouses, Where Do Senior Living Facilities Sit?

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State legislatures nationwide are engaged in a flurry of activity as lawmakers, journalists, interest groups and citizens converge to address diverse policy issues. Debates and advocacy campaigns on topics such as social...more

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New Jersey Intends to Suspend Two South Jersey Nursing Homes from Medicaid

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The New Jersey Office of the State Comptroller’s (OSC) Medicaid Fraud Unit has moved to suspend two South Jersey nursing homes from New Jersey Medicaid, citing poor conditions at the facilities and evidence that their owners...more

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Senior Living Alert: 10 Things to Know About Senior Living Facility Restructuring and Bankruptcy

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Over the past few years, the senior living sector has endured some hard times. In 2023, many operators found themselves in distress and facing a sale or court-governed proceeding. Interest rates, wage inflation, staffing...more

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Senior Living Alert – On the Horizon: How Prior Legislative Work Is Leading Into the 2024 Session

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With the election season completed and the posture of each state’s political chatter turning toward the 2024 session, now is a good time to take stock of where certain states have seen progress (or attempts at progress)...more

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Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: The Upside of Compliance Plans for Senior Care Facilities

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Williams Mullen’s Strategies for Senior Care video series explores how owners, administrators, and directors of assisted living facilities (ALFs), skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), and continuing care retirement communities...more

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Reputation Management Is Key in a Competitive Senior Living Marketplace

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When a man’s family placed a hidden camera in his senior living residence, it came as a startling surprise to the provider. While the company has a policy against surreptitiously videotaping employees, management could not...more

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AI May Offer Solutions to (Some) Senior Housing Issues

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Senior Housing News recently published an article making a compelling argument for how the use of “AI” is aiding senior living communities in providing better resident experiences and care. Focused on the experiences of...more

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Senior Living Trends Heading in a Positive Direction

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A new survey conducted by the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care unveiled some encouraging developments in the senior housing industry. The survey, which included responses from owners and executives of 39...more

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Utilizing the MDS as a resident's rights and risk-reduction strategy in long-term care

CT magazine (October 2022) - The frailty syndrome is an emerging concept for providers who care for individuals with significant comorbidities, advanced age, or a decline in functional or cognitive status; the more...more

Console and Associates, P.C.

Can You Sue for Nursing Home Injuries Due to Falls and Other Accidents?

Abuse and neglect at nursing homes are longstanding problems. Some of the most common nursing home injuries are also among the problems that can leave the families of residents with a lot of questions. ...more

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Investigating and Defending Nurse Homes in Cases of Severe Pressure Ulcers

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When a resident of a nursing home suffers from severe pressure ulcers any claim against the facility may initially seem indefensible. But careful evaluation of the record may very well show that not to be the case. If there...more

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Supreme Court To Hear Case Regarding Section 1983 Enforcement of FNHRA Violations

The Supreme Court, on May 2, 2022, granted certiorari to consider whether certain provisions in the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act (“FNHRA”) create rights that are federally enforceable by nursing home residents under 42...more

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NOTICE TO PROVIDERS: CMS Phasing Out Certain COVID-19 Regulatory Waivers in Long-Term Care Facilities, Hospices, and ESRD...

Certain COVID-19 emergency declaration blanket waivers are being phased out by the federal government, and health care providers should take steps to determine whether current arrangements are compliant. As background, in...more

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Proposal Calls for Increased Transparency of Ownership for Privately Owned Nursing Homes

Continuing the theme of increased transparency of ownership of nursing homes included in the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the White House issued a Fact Sheet titled “Protecting Seniors and People with Disabilities by Improving...more

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Nursing Home COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate

President Biden is putting nursing homes on notice that all of their employees will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19, if the homes intend to continue participating in Medicare or Medicaid. The administration has...more

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Healthcare Headlines Episode 3 - Stay Ready: Trends in Healthcare False Claims Act Investigations

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Episode three of McGuireWoods’ video series “Healthcare Headlines” focuses on trends in False Claims Act investigations across the healthcare industry. Host Amber McGraw Walsh, chair of the firm’s nationally recognized...more

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U.S. nursing-home rating system ‘broken’ by gamed data and poor oversight

Federal regulators, by allowing owners and operators to self-report quality and safety data and failing to audit vital information with diligence, have “broken” the national nursing-home rating system — what was supposed to...more

Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.

Minnesota's New Assisted Living Licensure - Are you Ready?

Minnesota’s new Assisted Living License goes into effect August 1, 2021. With less than five months remaining before the deadline, providers need to act immediately to make sure they are prepared for the new requirements,...more

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Georgia Proposes Rules to Implement New Standards for Assisted Living Facilities and Personal Care Homes

New standards for assisted living facilities and personal care homes were among the changes included in Georgia House Bill 987, the “Disabled Adults and Elder Persons Protection Act,” which Governor Kemp signed into law on...more

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Nursing home coronavirus cases and deaths decline as vaccinations increase

The campaign to vaccinate millions of residents and staff in the nation’s thousands of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities against the coronavirus is gaining momentum and showing early, positive effects....more

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For nursing homes, a quarter lack PPE, half have infected staff, study finds

For residents of nursing homes and their loved ones, new and disturbing information has come out on  long-term care facilities’ persistent failure to safeguard the vulnerable from the coronavirus that has killed tens of...more

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