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The Daily News
Long-term care demand to double despite workforce constraints
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Nursing home staffing rule falls short of industry’s worst fears
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Only 19% of nursing homes currently meet proposed staffing standards
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Immigration tops contract worker use as nurse shortage solution for one rural health system
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Nursing home staffing mandate puts assisted living communities at risk of losing workers, experts say
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yahoo finance
Nursing home staffing mandates to further strain troubled sector
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Skilled Nursing News
Nearly 450K residents at risk of displacement if mandate is enacted, as access issues compound
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AHCA/NCAL
New report finds access to nursing home care a growing crisis
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Georgia Recorder
Federal staffing mandate for nursing homes ignores underlying problems driving staffing shortages
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James Magazine Online
Why a federal staffing mandate won’t work for Georgia’s nursing homes
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Report: Nursing homes’ reliance on agency staffing during pandemic resulted in hits to bottom lines
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
$300M for nursing homes won’t address long-term workforce problems
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Bloomberg
The health-care staffing crisis is bad and getting worse
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Skilled Nursing News
‘A microcosm’: states push minimum staffing mandates on nursing homes in Pennsylvania, NY as providers notified of violations
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Skilled Nursing News
Hospital referrals to nursing homes ‘doubled’ in 2023, but placements down due to staffing
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Just say no to mandated nurse-to-patient staffing ratios
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The Sacramento Bee
An unfunded wage increase could deplete access to care for vulnerable Californians
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
‘Hand-to-hand combat’ for workers, strict no-agency policy improve quality and workforce: PruittHealth CEO
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Skilled Nursing News
Ensign CEO expects a long comment period for potential minimum staffing mandate as company focuses on deals, retention
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Staff shortage creates empty nursing home beds in SD
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America’s Nursing Homes send letter to President Biden outlining quality improvement solutions in place of federal staffing requirement
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Only 29% of nursing homes can meet 4-hour daily care mandate
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Becker's Healthcare
'1 size doesn't fit all': A nurse leader's case against staffing ratios
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Advisory Board
Our take: What a new staffing mandate could mean for the SNF industry
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The Colorado Sun
Rural Colorado to benefit from $85 million for workforce development — including nursing resources — amid shortage
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Agency nurse prices move higher for skilled nursing as staffing minimum nears
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
State shrugs off workforce shortage, starts staffing rule enforcement
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State of Reform
Allowing Michigan nurse practitioners to have full practice authority could improve access to care in rural areas, MNA says
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Advocates intensify behind-the-scenes efforts as staffing minimum stalls
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Bay to Bay News
Burdensome mandates won’t solve long-term care staffing crisis
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centralmaine.com
Funding Maine veterans’ homes is critical
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Globest.com
Shortage of nurses at nursing homes keeps growing
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Skilled Nursing News
‘Worst Possible Time’: SNF operators hope for acuity adjustments, waivers ahead of staffing mandate
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Statehouse News Bureau
Nursing staff shortages mean less health care options for Ohio veterans
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ABC 11
'Creates new opportunities.' Duke Health, Durham Tech team up to address nursing shortage in NC
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Skilled nursing faces special conditions, dangers in heightened bankruptcy climate
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Nurse shortages escalate hiring challenges at providers’ regional offices
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The Morning Call
Your View: A Pa. State House bill that would mandate more nurses would make health care worse, not better
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Despite nurse shortage, tens of thousands are turned away from training programs
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NHPR
To ease staff shortages at county nursing homes, NH lawmakers back plan to help more LNAs become MNAs
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
More Western Pa. colleges are starting nursing programs amid nationwide shortage
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
As SNF staffing mandate inches closer, more lawmakers publicly question its viability
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The Hill
Mandates are not the solution to our growing nursing home crisis
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Western Mass News
Getting Answers: struggles finding at-home care workers and care
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Skilled Nursing News
‘Backed into a corner’: Over 500 nursing home providers gather to protest looming minimum staffing proposal
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The Daily News
Their View: Immigration can help solve nursing shortage
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Shoring up direct care workforce will take investment in recruitment, retention, career advancement, researchers say
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Bill limiting nurse training lockouts returns to Senate
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Decades-old CNA training lockout would change under re-introduced bill
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nwestiowa.com
N'West Iowa nursing homes short staffed and struggling
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McKnight’s Senior Living
New law tackles assisted living workforce, regulatory challenges
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Skilled Nursing News
AHCA’s CEO: Nursing homes must prepare for ‘massive’ staffing mandate battle, adapt to managed care ‘mega-trend’
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Assisted living reaching ‘breaking point,’ with 40 percent of providers without sufficient staffing
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RevCycle
Significant staffing challenges continue for nursing homes
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AHCA/NCAL
‘Season of Reflection’ revealed as theme for national assisted living week 2023
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NPR
Nearly a third of nurses nationwide say they are likely to leave the profession
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HealthLeaders Media
Round up: Post-acute staffing shortages
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The Washington Post
They endured covid. But some health-care workers mistrust the future.
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MedCity News
How can the eldercare workforce crisis be solved?
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Skilled Nursing News
‘Creative Staffing’: Nursing homes push to allow CNAs to administer medication citing labor benefits, savings
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
One-fifth of RNs planning to leave healthcare in 5 years: study
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Skilled Nursing News
‘Access Crisis Unfolding’: Nursing home operators, advocates warn of dire effects from Biden’s order on staffing
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The Salem News
Fewer long-term care spots available due to labor crunch
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Western Mass News
Study: staffing shortages pushing state’s nursing homes to near capacity
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MPH Degree USC
A public health crisis: Staffing shortages in health care
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AHCA/NCAL
Expanding veterans’ options for LTC act introduced in House
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Assisted living workforce shortage could be worsened by federal nursing home staffing requirements
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AHCA/NCAL
America’s hospitals, nursing homes send joint letter to CMS urging against unfunded staffing mandates
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i Advance Senior Care
AHCA state of the nursing home sector fact sheet reveals key industry findings
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MINN Post
Long-term funding for senior care in Minnesota needs to be priority one
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Save Our Seniors
Closures
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Provider Magazine
Building the Gen Z workforce
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ABQ Journal
Federal staffing mandate for long-term care is unworkable
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Fierce Healthcare
February jobs report shows strong gains for hospitals, senior care
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AHCA/NCAL
Requiring the impossible: Nursing home staffing mandates during a nationwide labor shortage don’t work
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Kaiser Permanente
Hiring alone won’t solve the health care worker shortage
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AHCA/NCAL
Veterans’ homes, government-run nursing homes struggle with staffing shortages
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PennLive
Thousands waiting for nursing home care in Pa. because of worker shortage, report says
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Senior living will need 3 million workers by 2040: Argentum
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Axios
Immigration seen as a solution to nursing home labor woes
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Wisconsin Watch
Wave of rural nursing home closures grows amid staffing crunch
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Denver 7
By the numbers: How pandemic-induced staffing issues are leaving Colorado seniors out in the cold
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RI News today
Nursing home workforce crisis deepens with minimum staffing standards – Herb Weiss
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Forbes
This nursing shortage requires innovative solutions
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NPR
Fixing the health care worker shortage may be something Congress can agree on
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
‘Creativity just isn’t enough’ to cover costs of care without more pay, alarmed nursing home leaders tell officials
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Providers support state’s flexible, incentive-laden staffing mandate but CMS may soon make it moot
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Provider groups back reintroduced bill expanding veterans’ access to assisted living
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NBER
Immigration, the long-term care workforce, and elder outcomes in the U.S.
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
A loud and clear message on staffing mandates
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Nurse.org
New bill could allow non-certified nursing aides to work in nursing homes for 2 years
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U.S. News & World Report
WHO, CDC study: Vast majority of COVID-19 deaths among older adults
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Skilled Nursing News
Federal bill aims to aid nursing home labor shortage with TNA program extension
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Senior living employment recovery continues to lag behind other healthcare providers
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NBC News
Small-town nursing homes closing amid staffing crunch
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Modern Healthcare
AHCA sounds alarm on nursing home staffing crisis
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Immigration policy proposals encouraging as staffing solution, senior living provider groups say
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Senators call on CMS to end push for mandatory staffing in nursing homes
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The Hill
More than 8 in 10 nursing homes face staffing shortages: survey Three years into the pandemic the staffing shortage in nursing hom
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CNBC
Biden administration extends Covid public health emergency as highly infectious omicron XBB.1.5 spreads
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McKnight’s Senior Living
How can assisted living improve for future emergencies? Report shares ideas
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PHI National
New index ranks states on direct care workforce policy supports
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Senior living residents eligible for $7 million federal COVID-19 telehealth program
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Skilled Nursing News
Executive outlook 2023: A new playbook for skilled nursing
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Skilled Nursing News
80% of nursing home providers 'very concerned' about possible federal staffing mandate
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Sandwich generation’s plans to pay for parents’ senior living could jeopardize their own futures: survey
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Agency staffing cost assisted living providers $4 million in one state in 2022: report
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Skilled Nursing News
$11.3 billion needed to meet proposed federal minimum staffing mandate
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McKnight's Home Care
Informal caregivers are our lifeline; let’s support them
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U.S. News
Nursing home facts and statistics 2023
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Time to get rid of the nurse-aide training prohibition, CMS!
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CNET
What I've learned about the financial toll of taking care of aging relatives
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McKnight’s Senior Living
19 percent worried they can’t afford senior living due to inflation: survey
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Delaware Public Media
Addressing the nursing workforce shortage crisis
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ABC News
COVID hospitalizations at least 3 times higher among seniors than other age groups: CDC
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Price of proposed nursing home staffing mandate? Try $11.3B a year, new AHCA report finds
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AHCA/NCAL
Updated report: Additional funding for workers needed to meet a potential nursing home staffing minimum mandate
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Nursing home infrastructure in need of innovation, experts say
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Senior housing future must prioritize affordability, connected health services, experts say
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Senior housing future must prioritize affordability, connected health services, experts say
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AHCA/NCAL
What they are saying: One-size-fits-all minimum staffing mandate will not improve care, solve labor shortages in nursing homes
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USC
A public health crisis: Staffing shortages in health care
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PHI National
How michigan permanently increased wages for direct care workers
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
State’s access-to-care problems reflect the country’s nursing home problems
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Colorado Politics
Senior care facilities face workforce crisis
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Skilled Nursing News
‘The Haves and Have Nots’: Omega closely monitors moves to make medicaid rate bumps permanent
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Skilled Nursing News
American hospital association throws weight behind nursing home TNA legislation
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
Providers, states grapple with billion-dollar needs ahead of federal staffing minimum
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McKnight’s Senior Living
$65 million assisted living program among federal funding priorities for industry coalition
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Axios
Axios AM deep dive
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Brookings
The role of immigrants in the market for elder care
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PHI National
What direct care workers say about their daily work
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Axios
Hospitals seek more aid to house patients they can't discharge
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McKnight’s Senior Living
New law creates oversight of staffing agencies but doesn’t protect against ‘price-gouging’
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
Long-term care picks up 11,000 jobs but recovery resembles roller-coaster ride
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PRWeb
AHN launches unique weekend nurse "Work Your Way" opportunity to enhance staffing levels and reduce nursing staff workload
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ACL
ACL launches national center to strengthen the direct care workforce
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McKnight’s Senior Living
5-year, $6 million grant will create national center to expand direct care workforce
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
The minimum staffing cloud looms. Will any sunlight shine through?
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Tradeoffs
Turning long-term care into a long-term career
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Health Care Dive
How tight nursing home capacity is bottlenecking hospital operations
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Kiplinger
4 potential ‘Silver Linings’ for seniors in 2023
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McKnight’s Senior Living
‘Staffing and labor challenges do persist,’ provider survey finds
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U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
National respiratory care week, October 23-October 29, 2022
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Provider Magazine
The need for technology funding in long term care with Steve Holt and Bill Charnetski
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The Washington Post
How to fix the nursing shortage
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
States get needed nurse aide waiver relief but workers’ fates uncertain
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Report: Nursing residency programs could help reduce turnover
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
Provider groups look to shape regulations after funding victories
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CBS News
CDC says some nursing homes and hospitals no longer need to require universal masking
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Axios
Home health, nursing homes look for year-end breaks in spending deal
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HHPR News
Kansas nursing homes are closing because they can’t find enough workers
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WSJ
Another inflation stress: rising costs of senior-living homes strain families
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McKnight’s Senior Living
California workforce development board grants $14M for CNA, LVA apprenticeship program
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AHA News
AHA urges congressional action to bolster health care workforce
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The Atlantic
The burnout crisis in pink-collar work
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The Atlantic
Warning signs about the first post-pandemic winter
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Health Day
Assisted living will become financially out of reach for many middle-class Americans
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
Providers, Congress ratchet up pressure on CMS to extend nurse-aide certification waiver
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Health Affairs
The forgotten middle: Many middle-income seniors will have insufficient resources for housing and health care
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McKnight’s Senior Living
3 key audiences to communicate with amid a senior living crisis
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MedCity News
Report: More than 11M middle-income seniors won't be able to afford long-term care by 2033
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
Yin and Yang. Tit for tat. Whatever you call it, nursing homes swing in the balance
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NORC
Many middle-income seniors will not be able to pay for long-term care and housing in 10 years
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PHI National
These stats on direct care workers should galvanize people
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NPR
Meet the 78-year-old bringing authentically Filipino care to Sacramento-area seniors
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Skilled Nursing News
Hurricane Ian hits nursing homes already beset by staffing crisis
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Fierce Healthcare
Nursing shortage looms large and projected to intensify in next 18 months: report
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The Washington Post
Worker shortages are fueling America's biggest labor crises
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AHCA/NCAL
PHI releases new report on direct care workforce
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CNN
Fewer children faced food insecurity last year, but more elder Americans did
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Leading Age
Leading Age supports and celebrates vital aging services professionals during national workforce development month
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Lack of data makes it difficult to address workforce challenges: report
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Long-term care accounts for 54% of healthcare bankruptcies this year
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McKnight’s Senior Living
One key to attracting and keeping employees: Training
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Politico
HHS says it plans to extend COVID-19 public health emergency
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
Another state surpasses 10% nursing home closure rate
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McKnight’s Senior Living
$3.6 million program seeks to address nursing shortage
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Forbes
Caregiving is crucial: How to support caregivers and why it matters so much
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The Guardian
Black and Latino seniors to see exorbitant prescription drug costs drop thanks to new US bill
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AHCA/NCAL
AHCA/NCAL announces 2022 award recipients
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McKnight’s Senior Living
As long-term care job vacancies approach 30 percent, report suggests solutions
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Geriatric worforce funding in Senate bill 'far too low,' provider group says
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Pacifica Senior Living
Know the signs of heat exhaustion: 7 tips to beat the heat this summer
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AHCA/NCAL
New report projects without assistance, nursing home workforce recovery will not occur until at least 2026
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Newsweek
Dog 'Loving her new life' after being adopted by assisted living facility
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The Hill
Around half older Americans can't afford essential expenses: report
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Politico
The crisis facing nursing homes, assisted living and home care for America's elderly
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nursing homes in better position to handle new COVID variant
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over and it's still dangerous, especially for older people
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
CMS to post 'up-to-date' COVID booster shot data next
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
CMS doubles down: Surveyors do not have to be COVID vaccinated
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McKnight's Long-Term Care
On PDPM cuts, Congress 'stands ready' to exert its authority—but where's the checkbook?
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Market Watch
Seniors head back to retirement communities as COVID lingers—'I just didn't want to be alone'
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Ageism could be even more harmful to older adults than previously thought
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Tech Crunch
August Health digitizes senior living communities for better care
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Single Care
Long-term care statistics 2022
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Despite another COVID surge, death stays near lows
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Harvard Business Review
Designing hospitals that promote staff wellbeing
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Expanding veterans' access to assisted living is 'common sense,' associations say
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Axios
Nursing homes face closure risks amid staff shortages post-COVID
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Provider Magazine
Supporting emotional needs to avoid burnout
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ABC News
Older Americans bore brunt of COVID-19 deaths during the omicron wave
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USA Today
Doctors, nurses risked their lives to battle COVID-19. Now they're facing a mental health crisis
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The Sun
Senior living: long COVID-19 symptoms often overlooked in seniors
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HHS
New surgeon general advisory sounds alarm on health worker burnout and resignation
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Coalition on Human Needs
CHN's COVID-19 watch, tracing hardship
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Bloomberg
A worker shortage is driving US nursing homes to the brink of collapse
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McKnight’s Senior Living
Supervised exercise program beneficial for seniors with hip fracture
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The Hill
Booster shot slowdown leaves older Americans at risk
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The Atlantic
The clearest account yet of how Trump's team botched the pandemic
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Argentum
We care about Ukrainian soldiers
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
HHS releases new data and report on hospital and nursing home ownership
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Home Health Care News
Where home health providers fit into the evolving kidney care landscape
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Fierce Healthcare
Hospitals decry CMS pay bump 'woefully inadequate' amid rising labor rates
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ProMedica
A big life: a ProMedica story
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USA Today
'Values of our society': nursing homes shut down, close wings amid COVID-19 staffing crunch
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The Wall Street Journal
Several million U.S. workers seen staying out of labor force indefinitely
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Surprise visitor for north county nursing home residents
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CNN
There's a drug to protect the most vulnerable from COVID-19. Why is it so hard to get?
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The Guardian
I felt guilty putting my dad in a nursing home, but it brought us closer together
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America's homeless ranks graying as more retire on streets
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'Breaking the age code' review: riding high into the sunset
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Take residents off the menu, put relief on the table, Argentum says relief on the table, Argentum says as House passes $5 billion aid package
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Nursing home residents suffer from staffing shortages, but the jobs are hard to fill
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Report: U.S. nursing home care is ineffective, inefficient, inequitable, fragmented, and unsustainable
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Nursing home care, funding system need overhaul, report says
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AHCA/NCAL leads coalition letter to DOL on RN and PT prevailing wage determinations
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DHS and DOL to supplement H-2B cap with additional visas
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Add declining immigration to problems weighing on the labor market
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New White House COVID projection puzzles experts and catches some Biden officials off guard
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'Somebody is going to needlessly get hurt' Family concerned over staffing shortages at Union Grove Veterans Home
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'Botched' COVID Booster rollout needs a reboot to save older Americans, experts say
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Hospitals Look to Raise Treatment Costs as Nurses' Salaries Increase
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National Skilled Nursing Care Week Starts Sunday, May 8
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Nurse Day 2022 kicks off National Nurses Week Friday with freebies, discounts and free Crocs
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'Joyful Moments' Revealed as Theme for National Assisted Living Week 2022
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The US should prepare for a predictable Southern summer surge of COVID-19, Birx says
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A story in USA TODAY sparked Oprah Winfrey's new documentary on-and battle against-racial bias in healthcare
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Deaths are no longer overwhelmingly among unvaccinated
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Assisted living operators get second chance at Provider Relief Fund money
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Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Needed Care, Federal Report Finds
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Why Nasal Sprays Are Poised to Be the Next Weapon for Fighting Covid
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Provider Hosts Careers in Aging Week Virtual Roundtable
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Want to live independently into old age? An aging America needs to make some changes, experts say
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AHCA/NCAL Highlights Growing Nursing Home Closures
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Caring for aging parents, sick spouses is keeping millions out of work
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Closure plans filed for one-fourth of unique specialty care provider’s facilities
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U.S. nursing home deaths appear to be at pandemic lows
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New laws let visitors see loved ones in health care facilities, even in an outbreak
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House readies relief package for restaurants, other industries
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Don't blame nursing homes for the deaths of residents in a pandemic
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Democrats should be ashamed for not allocating money to fight ongoing pandemic
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I Was A COVID Doctor. Here's The One Thing I Refuse To Do As We 'Get Back To Normal.'
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Caregiver fatigue in America rising at unprecedented rate
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Millions of vulnerable Americans likely to fall off Medicaid once the federal public health emergency ends
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126-year-old Eliza Bryant’s nursing home another pandemic victim, closing in summer
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Angry and abused, health care workers still overwhelmingly love careers, poll shows
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The pandemic pummeled long-term care – it may not recover quickly, experts warn
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Where have all the nurses gone?
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Wisconsin nursing home closures prompt request for more state aid
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Supply chain issues strike home health care
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The Biden administration used billions in hospital COVID-19 funds to pay drugmakers
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Rising COVID cases in US nursing homes prompt hospital warnings
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Low-wage workers prop up the nursing home industry. They're quitting in droves.
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The nursing home staffing crisis right now is like nothing we've seen before
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Testing requirements for nursing home visits leave families stuck in 'another lockdown'
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To help battle COVID-19, a hospital borrows tactics from combat veterans
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We'll never have a normal flu season again
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Omicron surge spurs new COVID-19 relief push in congress
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Essential workers face a tough choice: find a test or miss work
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COVID-19 deaths and cases are rising again at US nursing homes
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Patients Drive Hours to ERs as Omicron Variant Overwhelms Rural Hospitals
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My triple-vaxxed, 85-year-old mother caught COVID. Medical triage made her doctor useless
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Hospitals in half of US states close to capacity as Omicron continues surge
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Nursing homes at a tipping point: Many are forced to freeze admissions, stranding patients in hospitals for weeks
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'You can't really manufacture doctors and nurses that don't exist'
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COVID's risk to older adults
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How a Pennsylvania hospital system is working to free up beds during last COVID-19 surge
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COVID-era nursing homes staff crunch hurting hospitals, too
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Senior living communities need support
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Can long-term care providers use technology to stay ahead of competition?
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Nursing homes can now lift most COVID restrictions on visits
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Healthy, boosted people unlikely to develop severe omicron infections, but jury’s out on older, at-risk populations
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Nursing homes can now lift most COVID restrictions on visits
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10,000 Workers Have Left Nursing Homes Since March 2020
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COVID-19 still rages, but some U.S. states reject federal funds to help
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A Place for Dignity in Eldercare?
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Providers ‘Should Be in Survival Mode’: Nearly Half of Nurses Could Leave the Field in Next 2 Years
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Covid-stricken states still struggle months after Biden’s surge
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Recent Survey Finds Nearly Every U.S. Nursing Home And Assisted Living Community Is Facing A Workforce Crisis
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670,000 flags on the National Mall pay tribute to America’s devastating COVID-19 losses
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Placing a Higher Value on Direct Care Workers
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Biden Administration Releasing Billions in Covid-19 Relief for Hospitals, Health Groups
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Nursing Home COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Protect The Most Vulnerable, But Pose a Hidden Threat to Residents
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Column: Closures of Oklahoma's long-term care facilities devastating to residents and workforce
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Three Maine nursing homes announced closures this week, and more appear imminent
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$6,000 a week? $10,000? Inside the massive interstate bidding war for travel nurses.
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Nursing-care-facility reform efforts met by roadblocks
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LeadingAge Calls on Administration and Congress to Prioritize Older Americans in Infrastructure and Economic Recovery Legislation
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Designers Are Rethinking Senior Living—With a Focus on Wellness
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Why Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Is Not The Answer To Long-Term Care Funding Needs
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What Biden’s $400B Plan to Shift Long-Term Care Home Could Mean for Nursing Home Operators
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PODCAST What Families Want from Nursing Home Reform Post-COVID: No More Lockdowns and a Seat at the Table
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Nursing Homes After COVID: A Vision for the Future
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Nursing Homes, Once Hotspots, Far Outpace U.S. in Covid Declines
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More COVID funding for nursing homes a ‘top priority’ for Biden’s pick to be HHS chief
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Nursing homes at risk of closure amid Cuomo scandal, financial loss
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Politicians and doctors are reportedly clawing back COVID-19 vaccine doses from overstocked nursing homes
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New York Nursing Homes See Surge in Covid-19 Deaths as Officials Hope Vaccinations Will Curb Spread
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Job quality of direct care workforce fails to reflect their value: report
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North Carolina mulls incentives for prison inmates who get vaccinated
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COVID-19 Vaccine May Not Get To Long-Term Care Facilities Quickly Enough
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As the Virus Spikes, Vaccine Distribution Is One More Hurdle for States
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‘Because of You Guys, I’m Stuck in My Room’
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Assisted Living to Benefit as HHS Increases Relief Fund Distribution to $24 Billion
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W.Va. begins drive to vaccinate all nursing homes in weeks
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Vaccination Campaign at Nursing Homes Faces Obstacles and Confusion
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Editorial: Forgotten nursing homes ravaged by COVID. What can we do?
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Long-term care facilities improve testing, struggle with staffing amid coronavirus pandemic
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For the first time, the U.S. will reward nursing homes for controlling the spread of infectious disease
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New Pfizer Results: Coronavirus Vaccine Is Safe and 95% Effective
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Trump officials see surge in signs ups for free CVS, Walgreens Covid vaccine program for seniors
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Prayers and grief counseling after Covid-19: Trying to promote healing in long-term care
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Moderna's candidate COVID-19 vaccine looks to protect 94.5% of those who get it, trial shows
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How Covid-19 Will Change Aging and Retirement
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N.J. eases rules at nursing homes to allow more indoor visits
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Michigan: Indoor visits to nursing homes can resume
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AHA, AMA call for continued 2% Medicare sequester moratorium
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Watch couple's tearful reunion after 7 months apart
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Nursing Homes Urge Congress to Provide Additional COVID-19 Funding for Health and Long-Term Care Providers
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HHS Opens More Relief Funding for Assisted Living Providers
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Assisted living supply increases in 3 states, declines in 1: report
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Democratic senators highlight continuing toll of covid-19 in nursing homes
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For Older People, Reassuring News in the Statin Debate
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Nursing Homes Given Federal Go-Ahead To Allow More Visitors
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NY eases restrictions on visits at assisted living homes
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Near birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr., a predominantly Black nursing home tries to heal after outbreak
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Feds to ship fast COVID-19 tests to assisted living sites
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Ongoing support for nursing homes is critical to help our seniors
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D.C. mayor orders insurers to cover coronavirus testing for residents at high risk
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'I Want to Be With Her.' When Covid Closed Nursing Homes, One Husband Moved In
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1 in 5 nursing homes short on PPE and staff in virus rebound
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An 'Unprecedented' Effort to Stop the Coronavirus in Nursing Homes
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A Novel Way to Combat Covid-19 in Nursing Homes: Strike Teams
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Nursing Homes to Get 7 Million N95 Masks From Federal Stockpile
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Trump nursing home plan limits supply of free COVID-19 tests
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Nursing homes eye more private rooms in post-pandemic future
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FEMA Sends Faulty Protective Gear to Nursing Homes Battling Virus
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In Baltimore, a struggling, black-owned nursing home keeps covid-19 at bay
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Nursing home worker deaths going unscrutinized by federal government
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Trump Administration to Mandate Covid-19 Tests for Nursing-Home Staff
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Opinion: How to fix the nursing home crisis, now and after the pandemic
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Survey Shows Assisted Living Communities Running Low On PPE Supplies
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An assisted-living facility isn’t allowing visitors. This woman became a dishwasher there to see her husband.
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Assisted living community starts online petition seeking funds to fight COVID-19 as Argentum plans letter-writing campaign relaunch
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7,000 killed in assisted living due to COVID-19, report finds
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We can’t protect nursing homes from COVID-19 without protecting everyone
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Black Medicare patients 4 times more likely to be hospitalized with coronavirus
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Senators ask FEMA to show it's shipping PPE to nursing homes
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Why am I a Skilled Nursing advocate?
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Efforts for Coronavirus Vaccine Focus on Vulnerable Group: Older Adults
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Covid-19 deaths reveal ageist perceptions of seniors, which affects the care they receive
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Nursing homes represent more than 1 in 4 COVID-19 deaths
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Official: Hawaii care homes have lowest national virus rate
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Nursing Homes: What I Wish More People Knew
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Nursing Homes Say Some Protective Gear Sent by FEMA Is Unusable
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U.S. Nursing Home Population Shrank Roughly 10% This Year
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Senior living outlook remains positive as industry adapts to challenges from COVID-19
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Together Since 1952, A Couple Separated When Coronavirus Hits Gets A Happy Reunion
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A quarter of US nursing homes report at least one coronavirus infection, first official tally shows
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COVID-19 provides opportunity to improve nursing home care
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Race and location — not star ratings — tied to COVID-19 deaths, say investigators
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Pace of move-ins appears to be improving: NIC
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Regular Tests a Costly Must-Have for Virus-Wracked Nursing Homes
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40 percent of senior living operators have eased pandemic-related restrictions or will soon: Ziegler survey
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Nursing Homes Can’t Meet Federal COVID-19 Testing Goals That Never Really Existed
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103-year-old matriarch and avid Red Sox fan recovers from coronavirus, cracks open a Bud Light
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New technology aims to improve quality of life for socially isolated older adults during COVID-19 pandemic
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SNFs to Get $4.9 Billion from CARES Act as COVID-19 Battle Continues
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No Connection Between Nursing Home Ratings, Profit Status and COVID-19 — But Race a Major Factor
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COVID-19 making it even harder for SNFs to recruit, retain workers
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Survey: Senior living residents weigh in on coronavirus pandemic’s impact
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NJ women, 99 and 91, beat COVID-19 at Old Bridge nursing home
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South Roanoke Nursing Home announces recovery of 72 residents, staff from COVID-19
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Congress Boosted Medicaid Match to Help Fight COVID-19 — But Many States Left Nursing Homes Out
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Cherry Hill Nursing Home Emphasizes Success In Coronavirus Fight
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Nation Favors More COVID-19 Support for Nursing Centers, Assisted Living
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Aid Bill Would Pause MFAR Medicaid Crackdown During COVID-19, Boost Federal Match by 14%
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