Mass Senior Care has a dedicated page on our website to share important memos and resources with all members about coronavirus, officially named COVID-19. Updated guidance from Massachusetts Department of Public Health and CMS are also available on the page. As concerns arise with COVID-19, Mass Senior Care members should visit the website daily for the latest information.
State budget deliberations are intensifying, and Mass Senior Care is encouraging members to contact their State Representatives and State Senators to urge them to make nursing facility care a top priority in FY 2021. Lawmakers are currently meeting with House Ways and Means Chairman Aaron Michlewitz and Senate Ways and Means Chairman Michael Rodrigues to discuss and submit their FY 2021 budget priorities.
Mass Senior Care is encouraging nursing facility staff, residents, family members and vendors to join us for State House Visibility Day on Tuesday, March 24th at 11:00am which will coincide with the Joint Committee on Way and Means Budget hearing at Gardner Auditorium in the Massachusetts State House.
The Department of Public Health is communicating guidance through their dedicated COVID-19 website as well as the DPH Nursing Home Listserv and the Health and Homeland Alert Network (HHAN).
Mass Senior Care and provider members having been at the State House meeting with legislators from across the state to urge their support for quality nursing home care. Closing the Medicaid funding gap would allow facilities to make critically needed investments to enhance resident care, offer competitive staff wages and expand the direct care workforce.
National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and Quality Assurance Performance Improvement will host a call on Tuesday, March 3 from 1:30 to 3 pm ET to discuss the CMS toolkit resources available for nursing home providers.
Massachusetts Senior Care Association is excited to participate in the upcoming observance of National Skilled Nursing Care Week (NSNCW), which will be held May 10-16, 2020.
There are limited spaces left for the March 12th PDPM 6 Months Later: The Massachusetts Experience seminar being held at the Boston Marriott Newton in Newton.