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…
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…
It was announced this Wednesday via Twitter that AB 36 (Bloom, D-Santa Monica) was being withdrawn from consideration.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…
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…
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…
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…
