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2024-03-19 Spotlight: How for-profit nursing home regulators can use the powers they already have to fix growing problems with poor-quality care

By Charlene Harrington, RN, PhD, University of San FranciscoThe Conversation, March 14, 2024 Governments at both state and federal levels have yet to fully wield their authority to fight poor-quality care at for-profit nursing homes nationwide, leaving the pressing need for elder care accountability unmet. Medicare has the power to improve financial accountability at nursing […]

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2024-03-29 Spotlight: For-profit nursing homes are cutting corners on safety and draining resources with financial shenanigans − especially at midsize chains that dodge public scrutiny

By Charlene Harrington, RN, PhD, University of San Francisco, and investigative journalist Sean CampbellThe Conversation, March 14, 2024 For-profit nursing homes are cutting corners on safety and draining resources with financial shenanigans − especially at midsize chains that dodge public scrutiny The care at Landmark of Louisville Rehabilitation and Nursing was abysmal when state inspectors […]

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Long Term Services and Support News Study Session

Study Session – Care Planning Made Simple & the New POLST Program

Wednesday, March 13, 2024Presenter: Ellen DiPaola, JD, President & CEO, Honoring Choices Massachusetts Topics covered: Download the Presentation Slides: Health Care Planning Made Simple and the new POLST Program (pptx format)

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Facilities News Spotlight

2024-03-11 Spotlight: The ‘hidden profits’ in the nursing home industry

University of California Los AngelesBy Dr. Ashvin Gandhi and Dr. Andrew OlenskiMarch 4, 2024Summary prepared by Becker’s Hospital Review A recent study led by researchers at the University of California Los Angeles study found reported nursing home profits may reflect only 37.1% of total profits as of 2019, suggesting a practice of profit extraction from […]

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Advocacy Facilities News

Benjamin Healthcare Center Plans to Close

The Benjamin Healthcare Center, on Mission Hill in Boston, is a long-term skilled facility that has been in operation since 1927, serving diverse seniors and constituencies who’ve historically struggled to find long-term care options in the community. This facility has announced its intention to close on July 1, 2024, and the DignityMA members are concerned […]

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Facilities News Perspective

DignityMA Globe Letters on Private Equity

Both former Senator Richard Moore and Margaret Morganroth Gullette published Letters to the Editor in the March 5 Boston Globe in response to several articles on the problems of Steward Health Care and private equity. Both letters are reprinted below. For-profit tendrils are making their way into nursing homes, other sites by Richard T. Moore […]

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Facilities Long Term Services and Support News Spotlight

2024-03-05 Spotlight: Shedding Light on Nursing Home Industry Spending and Profits

Shedding Light on Nursing Home Industry Spending and Profits Long Term Care Community ConnectionTuesday, March 19, 2024, 1:00 p.m. On this program, Tyler Braun (Weill Cornell Medical College) discusses findings of a new study that unveils the obscured financial landscape of U.S. nursing homes. Register for LTCCC’s March 19 Webinar

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Advocacy Facilities Long Term Services and Support News

DignityMA meets with DPH and EOHHS

On February 2, several DignityMA members met with Secretary Kate Walsh of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services and Dr. Robert Goldstein, Commissioner of the Department of Public Health. DignityMA presented their thoughts and recommendations regarding various issues affecting the delivery of long-term services and care in the Commonwealth especially those involving nursing […]

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Awards and Events News

2024 Outstanding Federal Legislator Award

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was named the recipient of the Dignity Alliance Federal “Outstanding Federal Legislator Award.”   The presentation was  made on February 28th in Warren’s Boston Office in the JFK Federal Building at noon.  Janice Rotenberg, Senator Warren’s State Director, accept the award on behalf of the senator who is in Washington presiding at […]

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Older Adult Lobby Day 2024

February 27 More than 500 older adults and advocates participated in the Older Adult Lobby Day in the Great Hall at the State House on Tuesday, February 27, 2024. Betsey Crimmins (Mass Home Care) and Ellen Taintor (Mystic Valley Elder Services) organized the event. Betsey Crimmins, Executive Director of Mass Home Care, described the event […]