National Media Stories, Week of June 7-11, 2021
Infrastructure
- CBS News: Biden dismisses latest GOP infrastructure counteroffer as falling short of his objectives
- Washington Post: White House infrastructure talks with Capito collapse, leading to fingerpointing as Biden shifts strategy
- The Hill: Workers and seniors deserve investments in home care infrastructure
Vaccines
- *ABC News: Where nursing home staff vaccinations lag, COVID-19 outbreaks may follow, experts warn
- *McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: Major provider group to CMS: Don’t include staff COVID vax reporting in QRP
- *Home Health Care News: To Better Protect Homebound Seniors, CMS Boosts Medicare Rates for At-Home COVID-19 Vaccinations
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: BREAKING: CMS starts posting nursing home vaccination rates
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: Nursing homes face barrage of penalties if vaccination reporting doesn’t pick up fast
Long-Term Care Workforce and Provider Relief Funds
- Axios: America’s nursing homes fight to find enough caregivers
- Home Health Care News: Addus Chief Strategy Officer: Workforce Shortage Remains ‘Biggest Challenge in All of HCBS’
- Skilled Nursing News: New CNA, LPN Contracts Raise Nursing Home Wages Across United States
- *McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: Cross training across LTC industry key solution for addressing worker shortage: experts
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: Use tech to work smarter as labor pains get harder, Ziegler advises
- *Skilled Nursing News, HHS Issues New PRF Reporting Requirements, While Rumors Swirl of Future Disbursement to SNFs
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: Feds to deliver ‘positive news’ on Provider Relief Fund in coming days: Parkinson
Future of long-term care
- Health Affairs: Medicare Advantage Creates Benefits For Providers Amid COVID-19 And Beyond
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: Facing senior care’s ‘new normal’ head-on
- Skilled Nursing News: CEOs See Long-Term Care Occupancy, Staffing As Top Post-Pandemic Challenges
- Senior Housing News: Senior Living’s History of Home Care Failure May Repeat Itself
- McKnight’s Senior Living: Joint Commission launches assisted living accreditation program to introduce ‘national, consensus-based standards’
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: Medicaid, other payers’ demands driving increase in nursing home Joint Commission accreditations
- McKnight’s Senior Living: Popularity of home health, home care forces other long-term care providers to step up game, execs say
- *McKnight’s Senior Living News: Person-centered care, powered by data, is the future of collaborative care: speaker
II. Other Clips that Influenced the Week: LeadingAge is a sought-out, reliable source for multiple trade and national media outlets (see that coverage on our Driving the Conversation page). Other key clips shaped the narrative last week:
- *Skilled Nursing News: As New Leader Takes CMS Helm, Look for Action on SNF Waivers and Infection Control Policies
- *McKnight’s Senior Living: Communication, culture commitment among pandemic lessons learned
- Kaiser Health News: Zooming Into the Statehouse: Nursing Home Residents Use New Digital Skills to Push for Changes
- *McKnight’s Long Term Care News: Providers want CMS to delay proposal for new HAi, hospitalization measure
- LAist: The Striking Racial Divide In How COVID-19 Has Hit Nursing Homes
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