LeadingAge Workforce Innovators is a production of LeadingAge’s Center for Workforce Solutions. The show examines promising practices and innovations to meet workforce challenges. This episode features Sue Misiorski, vice president of workforce innovations at PHI in the Bronx, New York. She spoke to us about creating career paths for nursing and home health workers. The Read More…
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CMS Five Star Rating Changes in Effect
On March 5th, CMS announced that it would be making changes to how the Nursing Home Compare site calculates its Five Star Ratings. These changes went into effect last month (April 24, 2019) and threaten to impact a significant number of nursing facilities’ ratings. According to Kaiser Health News, 1,638 nursing homes received a one-star Read More…
Affordable Senior Housing Resident Advocacy Day June 4th
Every year, hundreds of affordable senior housing residents, staff and advocates from around California make the trip to Sacramento to advocate for more funding and programs to expand the availability of affordable senior housing. Resident Advocacy Day – Key Details Tuesday, June 4th 2019 from 11:30AM – 4:00PM Sheraton Grand Hotel Sacramento Register here. The Read More…
HUD 202 Housing “Rally at Home” Toolkit Available
If you cannot make it to Washington, DC for the Senior Housing Now Rally on May 8th, the next best thing is to hold an event in your community. LeadingAge has released a “Rally at Home Toolkit,” which outlines some key activities you can host to help amplify the call for HUD 202 funding. The Read More…
Rent Control Bill Stalls in the Legislature
It was announced this Wednesday via Twitter that AB 36 (Bloom, D-Santa Monica) was being withdrawn from consideration. “I am asking that AB 36 be moved to Rules so we can continue to work towards reasonable reforms to Costa-Hawkins to deliver meaningful protections to the millions of California renters who are struggling to remain housed,” Read More…
Legislation in Congress Takes Aim at UBIT Impact on Nonprofits
The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 (Pub.L. 115-97) brought with it a surprise for nonprofit organizations. One major issue for nonprofits is the 21% tax on employee fringe benefits. LeadingAge California has been working with the American Society of Association Executives who has spent the last year stressing to Congress that the new Read More…
Few SNFs Submit Staffing Waivers in First Year Analysis
by Brenda Klutz, Senior Policy Advisor A total of 584 facilities submitted staffing waiver requests for the first-year implementation of this new process. These waiver requests covered July 1, 2018 through June 30th of 2019. 344 facilities submitted workforce shortage waiver requests; 115 of those requests were approved [33%]. 390 facilities submitted patient needs waiver Read More…
DSS Releases Draft Uniform Assessment Tool
The Department of Social Services has released a draft uniform assessment tool for comment by stakeholder with responses due by May 31, 2019. The Uniform Assessment Tool is being developed to implement Health and Safety Code (HSC) section 1562.62(c)(1) which states: “The department shall develop a uniform resident assessment tool to be used by all Read More…
SNF Quality Reporting Program Deadline – May 15
Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) can potentially avoid a 2% reduction on their Medicare Fee For Service (FFS) rates by ensuring they have submitted all necessary MDS data for admissions and discharges between October 1 – December 31 (Q4) of calendar year (CY) 2018 as part of the required reporting for the SNF Quality Reporting Program Read More…
CCRC Bill Approved by Assembly Human Services Committee
AB 1379 (Quirk, D-Hayward) Seeks to Change Provider Fee Fund and Require Enhanced Financial Reporting AB 1379 (Quirk, D-Hayward) would change the way the allocations are calculated and rename the Continuing Care Provider Fee Fund. The bill would also require enhanced financial reporting to the Department of Social Services if certain conditions are met. AB Read More…