This webinar took place on Thursday, May 16, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. PT/2:00 p.m. ET – 12 p.m. PT/3:00 p.m. ET Older adults and people with disabilities experience significant poor oral health outcomes. One’s income, race, disability, and state of residence all impact access to oral health and oral health outcomes. This is because oral […]
Your determined advocacy can be the difference between going-through-the-motions nursing home care, and the high quality, person-centered care that residents are promised by federal law.
This webinar took place on Thursday, March 7, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. PT/2:00 p.m. ET – 11:30 a.m. PT/2:30 p.m. ET. State Medicaid programs generally can pay for assisted living services. Also, new federal regulations (effective March 2023) now establish some rights for residents of Medicaid-participating assisted living facilities. Medicaid assisted living, however, remains a […]
Federal and state assisted living “quality measures” fail to provide meaningful information about the quality of care received by assisted living residents.
Federal law requires states to establish protections for a couple’s income and assets, when one spouse needs nursing facility care or the equivalent level of care provided through Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS). As set forth in a 2020 court order, California had not extended these protections adequately to HCBS. California has changed policies in […]
This webinar took place on Thursday, February 8, 2024, 11:00 a.m. PT More than 200,000 older and disabled Californians make their homes in a wide range of licensed facilities that provide housing along with some level of care and supervision. These settings include Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly (RCFEs), Adult Residential Facilities (ARFs), and […]
Prompt action is needed whenever a nursing facility abandons a resident in a hospital. This short webinar will explain the relevant federal law and advocacy strategies to return the resident to their nursing facility home.
This webinar covers resident rights in Medicaid-funded assisted living and group homes and strategies to enforce compliance when a facility ignores or otherwise violates the law.