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NY Senate to approve expansion of nursing home visits, increased Covid-19 reporting requirements Updated Feb 22, 2021; Update: All of the nursing home bills passed the Senate this afternoon. Sen. Rachel May’s bill to designate caregivers to visit during health crises, even if the nursing home is closed to the public, passed 63-0. Syracuse, N.Y. – State senators are expected to approve legislation today meant to require more oversight and transparent reporting about nursing home residents during health crises such as the coronavirus pandemic. The package of 11 bills is also meant to explo...

51 Years Since Stonewall – Health, Poverty, Housing Hurdles Still Plague LGBTQ 50+ NYers; Worse Since COVID: First of its Kind Report By Erik Kriss , January 28, 2021 10:36 AM LGBTQ NYers of Color Face Highest Hurdles; AARP NY, AARP Foundation & SAGE Urge Policy Solutions to Reduce the Inequities NEW YORK, N.Y. — LGBTQ New Yorkers age 50+ face steeper barriers to healthcare, higher rates of poverty, and greater challenges to their economic security than their non-LGBTQ counterparts, and the COV...

bkibler@altoonamirror.com A $175-million program involving 11 hospital systems that helped long-term care facilities deal with COVID-19 for six months ended recently, and the Wolf administration has replaced it with a less-well-funded program to hold things together through the end of February. The administration asked for federal money to keep the Regional Response Health Collaboration Program going, but the recent federal stimulus didn’t provide it, so agencies cobbled together a new program, finding money to support it for two months, even as it plans to ask the Biden administration for ...

Pennsylvania officials will offer a scaled-down version of its successful program providing immediate support to long-term care facilities battling COVID-19 for at least six more weeks. The Regional Congregate Care Assistance Teams (RCAT), part of the state's Long-Term Care Task Force, will replace the Regional Response Health Collaborative (RRHC). That program ended Dec. 30, when the state’s CARES Act funding expired.    The new program will continue 24-hour access to assistance started under the previous federally funded program, including COVID-19 testing, personal protective eq...