• Senior Housing News, Covid-19 Bulletin: HHS Seeks Data for Possible Senior Living Relief Funds; Green House’s Pandemic Resilience (7/31/20)
• McKnight's Senior Living, Data collection effort paves way for potential federal COVID-19 aid for assisted living providers (7/31/20)
• McKnight’s Long Term Care, Meaningful engagement requires staff to practice self-care (7/31/20)
• McKnight’s Long-Term Care: ‘We have been in a fight for our lives’: Providers spending hundreds of thousands on testing, PPE (7/30/20)
• McKnight’s Senior Living: Providers in COVID-19 hotspots decry ‘woefully insufficient’ pandemic response (7/30/20)
• Skilled Nursing News, HHS Boosts Initial Nursing Home Testing Shipment by 400, Promises ‘Affirmative Action’ on Kits
• McKnight’s Senior Living, HEALS Act falls short for seniors but provides some support for industry’s business operations (7/30/20)
• The National Law Review, Hospitals, Home Health Agencies, and Skilled Nursing Facilities: The Costs of COVID-19 and Federal Relief for Healthcare Providers (7/30/20)
• Home Health Care News, Dombi: Regulatory Flexibilities Mean More Competition for Home Health Providers (7/29/20)
• Quartz, Senior care jobs need a total rebrand (7/29/20)
• McKnight’s Senior Living, HEALS Act does not address pandemic’s significant effect on industry, senior living leaders say (7/29/20)
• Skilled Nursing News, As COVID-19 Testing Devices Ship Out to Nursing Homes, Securing Adequate Supplies Could Take Six Months (7/29/20)
• Business Insider, The faulty protective gear sent to US care homes, from gowns without arm holes to strapless masks (7/28/20)
• McKnight’s Long-Term Care, Providers offer mixed reaction to Senate Republicans’ $1T COVID-19 spending bill (7/28/20)
• McKnight's Senior Living, Senior living groups among 49 calling for ‘robust’ federal funding for COVID-19 testing (7/27/20)
• McKnight's Senior Living, HUD publishes guidance for accessing COVID-19 Supplemental Payments; prioritizes seniors housing communities (7/27/20)
• Quartz, Covid-19 will change the way we live as older adults (7/26/20)
• Star Tribune, After decades of denial, pandemic is making Minnesota baby boomers feel their age (7/25/20)
• The New York Times, FEMA Sends Faulty Protective Gear to Nursing Homes Battling Virus (7/24/20)
• McKnight's Senior Living News, Senior living associations appreciate prioritization of long-term care in Medicaid expansion proposal (7/24/20)
• McKnight's Senior Living News, HUD termination of fair housing rule disappoints, concerns senior living leader (7/24/20)
• McKnight's Long-Term Care News, HHS renews public health emergency, allowing waivers, Medicaid increase to remain in play (7/23/20)
• McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, Nursing home providers push for $100B in upcoming stimulus bill (7/22/20)
• Skilled Nursing News, Operators need $100 billion to cover COVID costs, industry group says (7/22/20)
• NBC News, Coronavirus a 'Category 5 emergency' for Florida's older (7/22/20)
• The Hill, Trump administration to give additional $5B to nursing home (7/22/20)
• NBC News, Growing concern over spike of coronavirus cases in Florida retirement community (7/21/20)
• Home Health News, Biden Announces $775B Plan to Boost the Caregiver Economy, Support In-Home Care Providers (7/21/20)
• McKnight's Senior Living, Senior living needs ‘substantial and immediate financial relief’ from COVID-19, leaders tell federal government (7/21/20)
• Skilled Nursing News, A Nursing Home Appeared COVID-Free. Testing Revealed 85% Positive in Four Days (7/21/20)
• Bloomberg Law, Covid-19 Surge Blunts Push to Resume Nursing Home Visits (7/20/20)
• Skilled Nursing News, As COVID-19 Cases Surge in Florida, HHS Nursing Home Testing Initiative Remains Murky (7/20/20)
• Arizona Republic, 'Testing is our only defense': Nursing homes plead for faster COVID-19 test results (7/15/20)
• Skilled Nursing News, Specifics of point-of-care COVID-19 testing coming to all U.S. nursing homes; providers welcome move (7/15/20)
• McKnight’s Senior Living, Industry asks governors for help as imminent COVID-19 outbreaks threaten assisted living communities (7/15/20)
• McKnight’s Long Term Care News, Providers warn states of possible coronavirus outbreaks at SNFs
• McKnight’s Long Term Care News, CMS to deliver ‘point-of-care’ COVID-19 test kits to all nursing homes (7/14/20)
• Skilled Nursing News, Potential MFAR Medicaid Cuts Back in Spotlight as Wide Swath of Health Leaders Call for More Relief (7/14/20)
• Skilled Nursing News, Federal Government Will Send Point-of-Care COVID-19 Testing Units, Kits to All Nursing Homes in U.S. [Updated] (7/14/20)
• US News and World Report, Maryland Long-Term Care Residents Tested Positive for Coronavirus Despite a Lack of Symptoms (7/14/20)
• McKnight's Long-Term Care News, Federal Government Will Send Point-of-Care COVID-19 Testing Units, Kits to All Nursing Homes in U.S. [Updated] (7/14/20)
• McKnight's Senior Living, House subcommittee spending bill looks to expand affordable senior housing supply (7/10/20)
• McKnight's Senior Living, Providers hopeful about next Senate virus relief bill (7/9/20)
• The New York Times, Grave Shortages of Protective Gear Flare Again as Covid Cases Surge (7/8/20)
• The Atlantic, The U.S. Is Repeating Its Deadliest Pandemic Mistake (7/6/20)
• Mcknight's Senior Living, ‘Misleading’ report tied to federal bill with COVID-19-related requirements for assisted living, industry group says (7/6/20)
• Mcknight's Senior Living, House passes two bills supporting affordable seniors housing (7/6/20)
• Wall Street Journal, Pence Drops In on Coronavirus Hot Spots (7/3/20)
• Insider NJ, Menendez Introduces Bill to Ensure Seniors in Federal Housing Can Live Safely, Stay Healthy during Pandemic (7/2/20)

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