Zooming Into the Statehouse: Nursing Home Residents Use New Digital Skills to Push for Changes
(By Susan Jaffe for Kaiser Health News) Patty Bausch isn’t a Medicaid expert, lawyer or medical professional. But she still
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(Source – www.medicare.gov/blog) Medicare.gov makes it easy to find and compare nearby health care providers, like hospitals, home health agencies,
Read moreCaring for an Aging Nation
(By Lydia Zuraw and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez for Kaiser Health News) The number of Americans 65 and older is expected
Read moreIn California, Nursing Home Owners Can Operate After They’re Denied A License
(By Aaron Mendelson and Elly Yu for NPR) The pandemic has highlighted poor care in America’s nursing homes, where nearly
Read moreBig Investors Push Nursing Homes to Upgrade Care and Working Conditions
(By Harris Meyer for Kaiser Health News) Nursing homes and long-term care facilities, where 182,000 Americans perished during the covid
Read moreIndoor Visits With Nursing Home Residents OK, New CDC Guidance Says
(By Scott Neuman for NPR) Health officials have relaxed federal COVID-19 guidance for nursing homes for the first time since
Read moreTexas Winter Storm Exposes Gaps in Senior Living Oversight
(By Sandy West for Kaiser Health News) HOUSTON — When the big, red and extremely loud fire alarm went off
Read moreReopening of Long-Term Care Facilities Is ‘an Absolute Necessity for Our Well-Being’
(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) For nearly a year, nursing homes and assisted living centers have been mostly closed
Read moreUnitedHealthcare suspends some prior authorization rules for hospitals
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) UnitedHealthcare suspended some prior authorization requirements for in-network hospitals and in-network skilled nursing
Read more99% of long-term care facilities have signed up for free COVID-19 vaccines from CVS, Walgreens
(By Maia Anderson for Becker’s Hospital Review) HHS Secretary Alex Azar said Nov. 18 that the department is seeing “tremendous uptake”
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