What Happened to America? We Asked 12 People in Their 70s and 80s. New York Times (free access), April 16, 2023 Moderator, Kristen Soltis Anderson You’re all in this group because you’re in your 70s or 80s. Which decade of life would you say was or is your favorite? I’d say the ’50s. That’s when […]
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Assisted-living homes are rejecting Medicaid and evicting seniors *Washington Post, By Christopher Rowland, April 6, 2023 Some residents who drained their nest eggs to cover private-pay rates have been evicted after turning to Medicaid to pay their bills. A recent spate of evictions has ousted dozens of assisted-living residents in Wisconsin who depended on Medicaid […]
National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care Materials Available from Consumer Voice Webinar Despite receiving tens of billions of dollars each year in Medicare and Medicaid dollars, there is little accountability for how nursing homes spend taxpayer dollars. Consumer Voice and Ernie Tosh discussed our new report, “Where do the Billions of Dollars Go? A […]
The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, March 28, 2023 Last week, Consumer Voice released its new report, “Where Do the Billions of Dollars Go? A Look at Nursing Home Related Party Transactions,” which documents how each year nursing homes funnel billions of dollars through related party companies (companies they own) with little to […]
Courtesy of our colleagues from Tallgrass Economics (Economics, Finance & Politics of Aging) March 23, 2023, By David Kingsley The Biggest Player in Poverty Medicine Had a Banner Year in 2022 Among all U.S. corporations, Centene Corporation is ranked 20th in revenue. It is also a major player in the Medicaid Managed Care business. The […]
The government should require that owners give residents private space — or it should take over the facilities and replace them with small homes. [Editor’s note: Margaret Morganroth Gullette, resident scholar in the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, is the author of “Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People.” Her forthcoming […]
LTCCC Alert: Nursing Home Administrator Hours Down 20% Since Pandemic Long Term Care Community Coalition March 9, 2023 Editor’s note: This communication and referenced report is courtesy of our colleagues from the Long Term Care Community Coalition in New York. We are grateful for their research and willingness to share.] Greetings, I am writing to […]
Judy Heumann, Who Led the Fight for Disability Rights, Dies at 75 New York Times (free access), March 5, 2023 She successfully battled to become a teacher and went on to help bring about a revolution in the government’s treatment of the disabled. Judy Heumann, who spent decades attacking a political establishment indifferent to the […]
‘It’s flooding an already completely congested market.’ Nursing home closures in Western Mass. leave families and hospitals scrambling. Boston Globe, February 26, 2023, by Kay Lazar The abrupt announcement that four nursing homes in Western Massachusetts will be closing this spring has forced hundreds of people to scramble to find alternative facilities for their fragile […]
Nursing home owners drained cash while residents deteriorated, state filings suggest. NPR Shots, January 31, 2023 New York state records show nearly half the state’s 600-plus nursing homes hired real estate, management and staffing companies run or controlled by their owners, frequently paying them well above the cost of services. Meanwhile, in the pandemic’s height, […]