Highlights of national media trends last week. (*LeadingAge is featured in the story.)
Infrastructure
- Reuters: Pelosi says new Senate infrastructure plan could be a hard sell
- The Hill: America’s long-term care infrastructure: A road to nowhere
- McKnight’s Senior Living: Long-term care infrastructure needs centralized access point for information: Experts
- *McKnight’s Senior Living: Aging service organizations, labor groups blast infrastructure compromise that leaves out care economy
- Home Health Care News: ‘Care Is Infrastructure’: Sen. Warren Calls for HCBS Support Following New Bipartisan Proposal
- *HomeCare Magazine: LeadingAge CEO Redoubles Call for Support for Older Americans
- Washington Post: Bipartisan group of senators introduces $40 billion bill to close the digital divide
- *McKnight’s Senior Living: Expanding service coordinators in affordable senior housing key to supporting pandemic recovery for older adults: report
Vaccines
- *McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: BREAKING: CMS issues reprieve for 2,500 nursing homes yet to report COVID vaccination rates
- Kaiser: How Do CMS’s New COVID-19 Vaccine Reporting and Education Rules Apply To Different Long-Term Care Settings?
- USA Today: A Houston hospital has paved the way for employers to require COVID-19 vaccines
Future of long-term care
- Home Health Care News: How the Medicare Advantage Landscape Has Evolved for Home Care Providers
- TIME Magazine: COVID-19 Exposed the Faults in America’s Elder Care System. This Is Our Best Shot to Fix Them
- The Wall Street Journal: One Family’s Lessons Learned From a Decade of Caregiving
- *Scientific American: America’s Long-Term Care System Is Broken
- McKnight’s Senior Living: Investors re-evaluate parameters of financial performance post-pandemic: NIC Leadership Huddle
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: Differentiation is key to a better future in long-term care
- Skilled Nursing News: Nursing Homes Must Tout Safety Measures, Promote Transparency in a Post-COVID World
- *McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, Former CMS administrator says nursing homes will remain key test sites for COVID therapies, other treatments
- *Skilled Nursing News: PruittHealth CEO: Nursing Homes Must Go Beyond ‘Cost-Effective Model of Care’
- McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: Long-term care should use more tech-based learning collaboratives: experts
