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Providers tackle Capitol Hill in person to try to prevent funding cuts

McKnight's Staff April 24, 2012

Preventing further reimbursement cuts, home- and community-based services, and housing will be the main topics of conversation Tuesday, when long-term care providers personally visit dozens of their respective U.S. lawmakers in Washington.

LeadingAge gets a 911 call

Elizabeth Newman April 24, 2012

You could soak up plenty of what you'd want to hear at a conference Monday at the LeadingAge PEAK Leadership Summit: discussions ranging from leadership and policy to payments.

Providers take trip to the top with LeadingAge PEAK leadership summit

McKnight's Staff April 20, 2012

LeadingAge will host its spring annual meeting Sunday through Wednesday in Washington. Typically considered a "Capitol Hill fly-in" during which providers meet with their respective states' lawmakers to push the LeadingAge agenda, the meeting also will feature keynote speakers, workshops and educational sessions throughout. There also will be an exhibit hall Monday morning. Educator and a co-author of the best-selling "Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard" Dan Heath will deliver the keynote leadership address Monday morning.

Push to decrease antipsychotics use has only just begun

James M. Berklan March 14, 2012

If you feel like you've been reading a lot about antipsychotics lately, you're not alone.

Leader through the ages

Elizabeth Newman February 28, 2012

We can learn a lot from the Rev. Howard Washburn's life story, and his passion for making seniors' lives better. Included is a lesson about what it means to be able to contribute.

LeadingAge cofounder Howard Washburn dead at 89

McKnight's Staff February 27, 2012

LeadingAge cofounder Rev. Howard Washburn, 89, has died. A New Jersey native, Washburn was one of a small group of individuals who founded the American Association of Homes for the Aging (which became AAHSA, then LeadingAge) in 1961, in New York City.

Survey: Most nursing home administrators say background checks are helpful, efficient

February 10, 2012

Criminal background checks have not been found to significantly limit the quantity or quality of candidates for nursing home jobs, a top nursing home advocate says. A recent government survey of nursing home administrators paints an accurate picture of what once was forecast as a contentious issues, LeadingAge Director of Advocacy Information Barbara Gay told McKnight's Wednesday.

Nursing home groups respond to Obama's proposed Medicare and Medicaid cuts

February 08, 2012

Provider groups are urging President Obama to consider nursing home funding when he releases his fiscal 2013 budget next week. The budget proposal is expected to include Medicare cuts worth $248 billion and Medicaid cuts of up to $72 billion.

Catholic nursing homes will be affected by HHS contraception regulation

February 02, 2012

About 500 Catholic nursing homes in the United States will be affected by a regulation requiring employer health insurance plans to cover contraceptive services.

Assisted living management officials saw a bump in salary in 2011, report finds

February 01, 2012

Assisted living facility chief financial officers had the highest salary increases among all management positions in 2011, with a 3.9% jump over last year to $122,226, according to a new report.

LeadingAge announces executive leadership summit reboot

January 11, 2012

Non-profit aging services executives will have a new place to learn ideas by attending the LeadingAge's PEAK Leadership Summit this spring.

CLASS Act remains safe from repeal for rest of the year

December 14, 2011

Advocates for the CLASS Act can take some comfort in knowing that efforts for full repeal of the program are at a dead end, at least for the rest of this year.

Providers 'working very hard' to ensure Senate doesn't vote for CLASS Act repeal

December 01, 2011

The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to repeal the CLASS Act on Wednesday, making a full House vote possible by the end of the year. Meanwhile, providers in favor of the law have intensified efforts to ensure the Senate doesn't follow the House's lead.

Nursing homes should be penalized for overuse of antipsychotic medications for dementia residents, federal investigator says

December 01, 2011

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should penalize physicians and nursing homes that continue to inappropriately prescribe and administer antipsychotic medications to dementia residents, regulators urged Wednesday.

LeadingAge: Tough times ahead for long-term care providers

November 30, 2011

LeadingAge President and CEO Larry Minnix openly acknowledged Wednesday afternoon that the next two years could be tense and difficult for long-term care providers. He was just one of a handful of experts painting a grave outlook.

Senior advocacy groups express sadness over Frank's retirement

November 29, 2011

Capitol Hill is losing a champion of affordable housing for low-income seniors with the retirement of Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), says one nursing home group.

Providers react to super-committee's failure to reach debt deal

November 22, 2011

Members of the congressional "super-committee" announced Monday that the panel has failed to devise a deficit reduction plan ahead of its Wednesday deadline, drawing sharp criticism from provider groups. The 12-member, bipartisan committee was tasked with finding a way to trim $1.2 trillion from the federal budget deficit over 10 years by a Nov. 23 deadline.

LTC groups eagerly await Supreme Court decision on healthcare reform

November 15, 2011

Despite the mixed feelings about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act among long-term care providers, all groups agree that they will be closely monitoring a case now headed to the Supreme Court. The high court said Monday it would hear oral arguments on ACA's constitutionality in March.

CLASS supporters continue calls to revive the program

October 27, 2011

CLASS proponents received a jolt of support Wednesday when a handful of Democrats advocated giving the long-term care insurance program another chance.

Nursing homes should embrace rehospitalization prevention, advocate says

October 25, 2011

Nursing homes have important tools at their disposal to help prevent rehospitalizations among their own residents, a leading advocate told McKnight's at last week's LeadingAge annual meeting.

Talk of federal long-term care benefit won't go away

October 21, 2011

If opponents of the CLASS Act think they've beaten down or somehow subdued chief advocate Larry Minnix or his LeadingAge members, they have another thing coming. Despite a week of roiling controversy and confusion that has some official sources leaving it for dead, CLASS still has an active champion in Minnix. That much was abundantly clear in a video interview with McKnight's on Wednesday.

Provider groups lobby for Medicare observation stay fix

October 21, 2011

Long-term care provider groups said at a congressional briefing Thursday that they want a Medicare policy on observation stays in hospitals to be changed.

Medicare and Medicaid chief tells long-term care providers: CMS is on their side

October 19, 2011

Improving the quality of care and targeting waste and fraud are priorities for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, chief Donald Berwick, M.D. told a large group of long-term care providers Tuesday.

LeadingAge: Don't stop fighting for CLASS Act

October 18, 2011

The Department of Health and Human Services may have shelved the CLASS long-term care benefit, but advocates of the program said mixed messages from the White House suggest otherwise. One major provider association said it would continue to fight to keep the program alive while another issued a statement Monday that was more resigned that the CLASS Act was all but dead.

CLASS Act is far from dead, according to supporters

October 16, 2011

When the White House effectively killed the CLASS Act, the program's most vocal advocates dug in their heels in hopes of resurrecting the long-term care insurance program.

Stars to help LeadingAge celebrate its 50th birthday at annual meeting and convention

October 13, 2011

LeadingAge, the association of nonprofit long-term care providers formerly known as the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, will celebrate its 50th year in existence next week at its annual meeting and exposition in Washington, D.C. The event begins Sunday and extends through Wednesday night, with most events taking place at the Washington Convention Center.

In another blow to CLASS, HHS shuts down office, reassigns staff

September 23, 2011

The chief actuary for the Department of Health and Human Service's CLASS Act program has said HHS is shutting down its CLASS office and that he no longer has a job, according to published reports.

CLASS Act was doomed from the start, says GOP report

September 16, 2011

Health and Human Services officials were concerned about the sustainability of the CLASS Act prior to the bill's passage, according to a new report.

Provider groups remain vigilant on entitlement spending as Obama signs debt ceiling legislation

August 03, 2011

A bipartisan Congressional committee will be tasked with reforming entitlement programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, as part of a federal debt limit deal signed yesterday by President Obama.

Provider groups 'appalled' by CMS rule that would trim SNF payments by 11.1%

August 01, 2011

Provider groups slammed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Friday after the agency issued a final rule that would reduce Medicare payments to skilled nursing facilities by $3.87 billion for fiscal year 2012.