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Nursing HomesAssisted Living/Board & Care Home and Community Based Services
December 03, 2014
Integrating care and services into a single program or coordinated system is essential to improving quality of care and lowering costs for Medicare-Medicaid enrollees. A new online toolkit from the Center for Health Care Strategies compiles resources to help states exploring options to integrate care through a variety of vehicles.
December 03, 2014
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research released an issue brief on Hispanics' experiences with long-term care in the United States, revealing new data on planning for long-term care as well as demographic differences in this community.
November 26, 2014
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently issued a Survey and Certification Tool, with an introduction by Secretary Greenlee of the Administration for Community Living (ACL) within the Department of Health and Human Services. The focus of the video learning modules is to provide useful information to long-term care facility staff about the power of assumptions and prejudices, both known and unknown, that may make older LGBT people feel fearful and afraid, so that such fears won't cause older LGBT patients to retreat to a “closeted lifestyle” in order to receive necessary long-term care services.