Weekly News Wrap-Up (November 16 - November 20)
Long-Term Care Advocates Applaud Provisions in Senate Healthcare Reform Bill (McKnight’s Long-Term Care News & Assisted Living, November 20, 2009)
The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging gave kudos to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others for including the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act in the newly introduced Senate healthcare reform bill.
Long-Term Care Providers Can Influence Healthcare Reform, Edward Kennedy Jr. Tells Association (McKnight’s Long-Term Care News & Assisted Living, November 19, 2009)
“Legislators really need to hear from people working in the [long-term care] industry,” Edward M. Kennedy Jr., son of the late senator, told a crowd at the 60th annual meeting of the Massachusetts Senior Care Association on Tuesday.
CapitalSource to Sell Its Interest in 143 Nursing Homes (McKnight’s Long-Term Care News & Assisted Living, November 18, 2009)
Commercial lending company CapitalSource said Tuesday that it will sell off its long-term care interests to Omega Healthcare Investors in a deal valued at roughly $860 million.
White House Rejects Claims That Proposed Medicare Cuts Would Hurt Care for Seniors (McKnight’s Long-Term Care News & Assisted Living, November 17, 2009)
A recent report has rekindled some of the controversy surrounding proposed cuts to Medicare under current healthcare reform proposals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Saturday released an analysis that suggests nursing homes and hospitals would no longer accept Medicare patients if healthcare reform passes.
State Budgets Unlikely to Recover Until ‘Late in the Next Decade,’ Governors Say (McKnight’s Long-Term Care News & Assisted Living, November 16, 2009)
The recession has seriously bruised states over the last year and they will continue to face fiscal difficulties, according to reports released last week by the National Governors Association and the National Association of State Budget Officers.
National Family Caregivers Association Sponsors Free Teleclass and Webinar for Family Caregivers (National Family Caregiver Association (NFCA), November 2009)
National Family Caregivers Month is proclaimed every November as a time to thank, support, educate and empower all those providing care to loved ones with chronic ailments, disabilities, or frailties of old age.
The NAB Co-Convenes “Long Term Services and Supports in Health Reform Solutions Summit (2009)”
The NAB joined George Mason University Long-Term Care Educational Foundation and Amerigroup Public Policy Institute at the Capitol Hill Visitor Center in Washington D.C. to provide a forum for key Congressional staff, policy analysts and LTSS experts to review the role and relevance of LTSS in health reform, synthesize health reform proposals with LTSS principles, experience and evidence, and discuss how major strategies for broad-based health reform can include LTSS for seniors and people with disabilities.