Katie Smith Sloan

After initial dismay upon hearing the administration’s strategies for sweeping new nursing home reform plans last month, providers were more optimistic after meeting with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As members gathered Monday to prepare for in-person and virtual meetings with lawmakers here this week, LeadingAge President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan shared her disappointment that...

More than 30 leaders of aging services, health and social support nonprofit organizations called on Americans Tuesday to immediately demand that their elected officials address current crises in affordable...

Long-term care providers are applauding President Joe Biden’s revised budget reconciliation package that proposes investing $150 billion in home health. 

Katie Smith Sloan, leader of the nation’s main advocacy group for nonprofit long-term care providers, this week told her members that the pandemic has given them a “significant opportunity to redefine...

ATLANTA — If negotiators of President Biden’s $3.5 trillion  Build Back Better plan put the needs of older Americans “on the chopping block,” it would be “one of their greatest failures ever”...

A proposal to increase Medicaid funding for long-term care providers must be part of the budget reconciliation bill currently being debated by House lawmakers, according to the long-term care advocacy...

The initiative will allow states and other U.S. jurisdictions to “staff, train and deploy” strike teams to help long-term care operations with known or suspected COVID-19 infections, CDC says.

Long-term care providers are hopeful that the Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will help increase vaccine confidence among its workers and ultimately...

The nation’s second largest nursing home association doesn’t expect the long-term care industry to see a mass exodus of workers if more providers enact COVID-19 vaccine mandates for its employees....