I. FOLLOWING THE NARRATIVE: A quick summary of national media trends last week.
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National aging-services related news continues to assess impact of proposed Medicare funding cuts on nursing homes; explore the healthcare services as waivers end; and discuss the future of nursing home care as the Biden Administration moves forward with reform initiatives.
Biden Administration, Congress, Government Agencies
- *USA Today, ‘Values of our society’: Nursing homes shut down, close wings amid COVID-19 staffing crunch
- *McKnight’s Senior Living, Immigrant labor could improve quality of care for nursing home residents: panel
- *Skilled Nursing News, Closures, Consolidation, Sales: Skilled Nursing Ownership Goes Through Shakeup
- Stat News, Listen: Covid turned the nation’s eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?
- Bloomberg Law, Nursing Home Staffing Push Fuels Debate Over How to Pay for It
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, Ownership changes go public in fresh CMS move
- Skilled Nursing News, CMS Sets its Sights on Nursing Home Ownership Turnover in Unveiling New Database
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News (Guest Column), A beast of a month leads nursing homes closer to the brink
- Politico, Telehealth Growing Pains
- MedCity News, Will Congressional Action Cement the Vaunted Status of Telehealth Beyond the Pandemic?
- WHYY (PBS, NPR), New senior housing in Strawberry Mansion hailed as example worth repeating
Coronavirus, Workforce, Vaccines
- *McKnight’s Senior Living, Assisted living providers prohibited from denying employee COVID vaccine exemption requests
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, About 20K nursing home staff now have vaccine medical exemptions
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, Recruiting immigrants? Invite them in and wrap them up
- Forbes, The US Needs More Immigrants To Care For Frail Older Adults
II. Other Clips that Influenced the Week: LeadingAge is a sought-out, reliable source for multiple trade and national media outlets (see that coverage posted in our LeadingAge Press Room). Other key clips that shaped the narrative last week:
- *McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, Low-income senior women bear brunt of chronic disease burden: LeadingAge report
- *The Business Journals, Chronic health problems cost women more in retirement
- McKnight’s Senior Living, Older adults’ failure to plan is an opportunity for senior living operators
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, As first state long-term care program gets revisions, others show interest
- New York Times, Inside a Home for L.G.B.T.Q. Seniors: ‘I Made Friends Here.’
- New York Times, Can Robots Save Nursing Homes?
- KBTX-TV, Affordable housing residence saves at least 100 Brazos County seniors from homelessness
- New York Times, Inside a Home for L.G.B.T.Q. Seniors: ‘I Made Friends Here.’
- McKnight’s Senior Living, ‘Senior Living Cares’ campaign launches to aid older adults in Ukraine
III. What’s On Our Radar — this week’s likely priorities:
- Next phase of outreach re: Older Americans’ Month and access to care
- Apr. 26 2022 National Call in Day to tell Congress to support funding for affordable housing for low income older adults
- Gathering info for response and reax to promised CMS payment rule
- Ongoing engagement with White House, federal agencies re: POTUS Quality of Care in Nursing Homes Initiative
IV. National Statements & Products (all posted on the Press Room page):
V. State Resources Rundown: State Association Media Materials: A folder of helpful resources, sample op-eds, fact sheets, and more.
