Feb 6, 2022
TOPIC: How to use the Federal & State Rating Systems to make the Best Nursing Home Choices. Date: Tuesday, Feb 25, 2022 Time: 10:00 AM—11:00 AM Speaker: Cynthia Rudder, Ph.D., StateWide Consultant RECORDING POWERPOINT PRESENTATION FLYER ...
Feb 5, 2022
Please make two calls right away to restore our funding! Call your State Senator at 518-455-2800 and Assembly members at 518-455-4100. Message: My Name is ______ and I am a constituent who supports funding for NY StateWide Senior Action Council’s Patients Rights...
Feb 4, 2022
Updates: NYS Nursing Homes are now required to give visitors a rapid COVID test to self-administer upon arrival at the facility: NYS has sent sufficient supplies to the nursing homes. If the facility does not provide a rapid test, visitors cannot be required to test...
Feb 4, 2022
NEWS ALERT Contact: CMS Media Relations February 3, 2022 Biden-Harris Administration Will Cover Free Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Tests Through Medicare CMS Developing Initiative to Enable Access to Eight Free Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Tests for Medicare Beneficiaries in...
Jan 31, 2022
Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage By Susan Jaffe JANUARY 28, 2022, Kaiser Health News REPUBLISH THIS STORY (ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES) A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against...
Jan 28, 2022
BUDGET BRIEFINGS Speaker: Gail Myers, Deputy Director January 28th, 10AM – Highlighting funding through the NYS Office for Aging in the Governor’s Proposed Budget. Powerpoint Presentation – State Budget Proposal Briefing on Aging Issues 2022;...
