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The New York State Department of Health has released new nursing home visitation guidelines permitting expanded visitation to residents beginning this Friday, February 26, 2021. Please see the new guidelines here: https://www.governor.ny.gov//NH_Visitation_update_2-22-202

Compassionate Care visits are special visits in which a family member or other visitor provides comfort, support and/or assistance to a resident whose well-being is suffering or at risk, or who is dying. Nursing home facilities should be permitting compassionate care visits under the guidelines provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regardless of the Covid positivity rate in your county. https://theconsumervoice.org//making-the-case-for-compassi

States need to step up elder abuse protections in assisted living, other settings: report. A new report is calling for increased state action to reduce and prevent elder abuse in assisted living communities and other settings. https://bit.ly/33R51Tk

CMS to Retire Old Nursing Home Compare Site on December 1 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will formally phase out its eight original Compare tools including Nursing Home Compare on December 1 in favor of its new unified Care Compare site. https://bit.ly/3m0VsrY

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Biden’s Blueprint for Nursing Home Reform Post-Covid: It Did Not Have to Be This Bad While Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has attracted attention for a $775 billion plan to expand community-based senior services, the former vice president’s campaign has also laid out a wish list for nursing home reform in the wake of COVID-19.... https://bit.ly/3e6nUpq