nursing homes

In this episode, Tim will explain how people can save assets even if they are about to enter, or even if they are already admitted to a nursing home.

Editor Deirdre Neilen discusses the new issue of "The Healing Muse," a literary and visual arts journal. Orthopedic surgeon Eric Bellinger talks about how to prevent pickleball injuries. Rebecca Alder goes over the rights of long-term care residents in New York state. She is the regional ombudsman manager at Arise Child and Family Services.

A coalition of nursing homes says, if the state doesn’t increase its Medicaid reimbursement rates, the eldercare facilities may have to reduce the number of beds — or even shut down all together.

Advocates for nursing home workers say the state health department is trying to undermine a law meant to establish minimum staffing requirements by getting rid of a $300 a day penalty for nursing home operators who violate the rules.

A union that represents tens of thousands of nursing home workers is shining a light on staffing shortages across New York state, and members are calling for action.

Gov. Kathy Hochul says an examination by independent experts of the state's COVID-19 policies will include a look at deaths in nursing homes.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has until the end of the day Thursday to decide whether to lift a pause on a law that requires nursing homes to greatly increase staffing.

State lawmakers passed two significant reforms to nursing home operations last summer. Enforcement was set to begin this January, but the laws remain on an extended hold.

New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli released an audit Tuesday night that finds the state Department of Health understated the number of nursing homes from COVID by 4,100, and by more than 50 percent at some points during the pandemic.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul promised more government transparency on her first day in office and by day’s end her administration had quietly delivered it by acknowledging nearly 12,000 more deaths in the state from COVID-19 than had been publicized by her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo.