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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) made appeals guidance available for its NSPIRE housing inspection protocol on August 19.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) center for homeless and housing resources sponsored a webinar on August 7 titled “Public Housing and Serious Mental: Practical Recommendations for Housing Providers.” The recording is now available.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated the State Operations Manual, Appendix PP, to reflect the previously released advance copy information for the revised facility assessment requirements found in the Quality, Safety and Oversight memoranda, QSO-24-13-NH.

Kari Thurlow, LeadingAge Minnesota CEO, provided a statement to McKnight’s Senior Living in an article covering Walz’s selection as Kamala Harris’s running mate.

Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final Medicare payment rule for SNFs for the year that begins Oct. 1.

Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) released a discussion draft about hospice reform on June 13 titled, “The Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (CARE) Act of 2024.” The Hospice CARE Act is in draft form but would transform and make the biggest changes to the Medicare Hospice Benefit since the benefit’s inception in 1982.

LeadingAge supports HUD’s efforts to expand housing access in practical, consistent ways.

Expand housing access in practical, consistent ways, LeadingAge told the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in a June 10 comment letter.

Findings in a May 2024 report from the TIAA Institute, a division of insurance and annuities provider TIAA, reveals the values and priorities of health care sector workers and also emphasizes the importance of understanding benefits as part of an overall compensation package and the needs of various worker demographics.

On May 10, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) led a letter to Senate Appropriations HUD Subcommittee Chair Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Ranking Member Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) urging strong funding in fiscal year 2025 for affordable housing programs serving older adults and persons with disabilities.

A new resource is available to LeadingAge Minnesota members for use with their Board of Directors describing the staffing mandate from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and includes strategic questions for their discussion.

On April 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division announced a final overtime rule which will take effect on July 1, 2024, with updates starting on January 1, 2025.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) explained in a February 2024 MLN Matters article that hospices and skilled nursing facilities must act now to report their designated administrators and designated medical directors as “managing employees,” if they haven’t already done so.

The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) revised its definition of "up to date" for COVID-19 vaccine reporting in long-term care (LTC) facilities.

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated respiratory virus recommendations for the public.

A federal judge has vacated the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) “joint employer” rule (the “2024 Rule”), which would have revised the employee-independent contractor test analysis used to classify a worker as an employee or an independent contractor that was set to be effective today, Monday, March 11. 

Affordable housing members of LeadingAge, our national partner, are invited to the fourth members-only HOTMA Implementation Q&A with Jenny DeSilva, president of DeSilva Housing Group, on April 10 at noon CDT.

LeadingAge, our national partner, and DeSilva Housing Group have developed a “Mission-Driven HOTMA Implementation Discretionary Checklist” with suggested approaches and sample language for discretionary updates to Tenant Selection Plans.

LeadingAge, along with its coalition partners on Medicare Advantage (MA), asked CMS to clarify that MA plans must follow Medicare regulations related to the Jimmo Settlement Agreement (2013) when making coverage determinations.

Argentum, our national partner, will host a complimentary webinar, " Telling The True Story of Assisted Living and Maintaining State Regulation, " on Friday, Feb. 9, from 11 a.m. to noon CT. All LeadingAge Minnesota members are invited to attend.

Our national partner, LeadingAge, worked with Global Refuge to create a members-only resource with recommendations for hiring, training, and building inclusive workplaces for refugees.