Your Parents Deserve More From Their Nursing HomeNew York TimesBy Norma B. Coe and Rachel M. WernerFebruary 7, 2025 Dr. Coe is the director of research and Dr. Werner is the executive director at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. For anyone who lives in a nursing home, the […]
Category: Spotlight
By James A. Lomastro, PhDJanuary 2025 The emergence of Dignity Alliance Massachusetts (DignityMA) represents a significant evolution in the concept of honest brokers within healthcare systems. While traditional honest brokers typically strive for complete neutrality in mediating conflicts, DignityMA has pioneered a new approach that combines advocacy with intermediary functions, challenging conventional assumptions about the […]
Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA)Nursing facilities serve an important role in the continuum of health care services in Massachusetts, providing nearly 12 million patient days of service in 2023. To better understand this component of the Massachusetts health care system, CHIA’s new dashboard, released in January 2025, examines the Commonwealth’s nursing facilities […]
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesJanuary 14, 2025 (updated) Summary:The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is launching a national Nursing Home Staffing Campaign aimed at increasing the number of nurses working in nursing homes and at the state agencies that inspect nursing homes for compliance with health and safety standards. CMS will provide […]
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)January 10, 2025 KEY POINTS• A CMS rule finalized on November 17, 2023, enhances ownership transparency and policy by requiring detailed disclosures about the ownership and managerial control of nursing homes.• Publicly available CMS ownership files offer essential information for mapping nursing home structures, assuming the […]
August 2025 – DignityMA has added a new advocacy toolkit, and the Consumer Voice has added facts and a podcast. Scroll down to PNA Resources. July 1, 2025: Hearing on the PNA The Joint Legislative Committee on Health Care Financing held a hearing at the State House on legislation to raise the Personal Needs Allowance […]
Nonprofit QuarterlyBy James Lomastro, PhD, January 6, 2025Editor’s Note: James Lomastro is a member of the Dignity Alliance Massachusetts Coordinating Committee and is the Chair of several workgroups. Dignity in Action: From Institutional Failure to Decentralized Empowerment Forged amid the suffering, deaths, and neglect that prevailed in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, this peer-led […]
Nurse.org, By Angelina WalkerJanuary 2, 2025 The debate over private equity’s role in healthcare has intensified in recent years, with critics arguing that the profit-driven model of these investment firms is incompatible with high-quality patient care and safety. Recent developments have added fuel to this ongoing discussion as private equity (PE) firms have been increasingly […]
After Action Review of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, U. S. House of RepresentativesDecember 4, 2024 The Select Subcommittee had bipartisan consensus across multiple topics. In addition to these notable bipartisan successes, the Select Subcommittee developed extensive findings, some of which include:
CMS Issues Major Updates to Nursing Home Care Guidelines Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ServicesNovember 18, 2024What’s Changing?CMS’s new 900-page revised long-term care surveyor guidance document includes updates to critical care areas such as: Medication Rights: A Focus on PsychotropicsCMS is strengthening protections against the misuse of psychotropic medications, such as antipsychotics. These medications should […]