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News: Increased Access to Long-Term Care Ordered

We’ve extensively covered the new Biden Administration proposed changes to nursing home care. But now the administration has taken it a step further and issued an Executive Order. Here’s what that entails and what that might mean for long-term care facilities. The Executive Order This decisive order directs long-term care facilities to take immediate action. …

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Ownership Transparency & The Improvements Needed

Transparency is one of the most important aspects of running any business But when it comes to nursing homes, transparency is vital to building trust, ensuring quality care, and keeping owners and organizations accountable. Recently, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report investigating the ways Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides ownership …

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Where’s the Money? Consumer Voice’s Latest Report

Some of the primary issues that desperately need attention in the nursing home industry are staffing shortages, overuse of antipsychotics, and especially transparency. Specifically, it is becoming more and more important for nursing facilities to be completely transparent about where the federal, state, and insurance funding goes. Billions of dollars are allocated to nursing homes …

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3 Takeaways from the Consumer Voice 2022 Annual Report

Every year the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, known as Consumer Voice, releases an annual report for the previous year. The report covers the previous year’s developments in policy, reforms, Consumer Voice trainings, and more. The 2022 report, released earlier this week, included a lot of information, especially since there were a lot …

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Consumer Voice: The Nursing Home Staffing Issue

It’s no secret that staffing issues in nursing homes have dominated the Biden Administration’s reforms focus. The coming weeks mark one year since the administration announced their proposed nursing home reforms, and while progress is expected to be slow, the need for staffing changes is more dire than we may think. The National Consumer Voice …

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