On April 10th, the Committee on House Ways and Means (HWM) released its version of the state FY2020 budget. The Committee's recommendation includes an additional $30 Million in funding for nursing home care; establishes a Nursing Facility Emergency Task Force to make recommendations on long term sustainability of the nursing facility sector.

Member Update: Mass Senior Care Testifies In Opposition to EOHHS Rate Year 2025 Temporary Nursing Services Regulation: Calls for Full Review of Methodology and Corresponding Increase in Medicaid Nursing Facility Rates; CHIA Issues Nursing Facility Industry Profile Report, 2021-2023; Supreme Court Decision Allows Enforcement of Corporate Transparency Law to Go Forward

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The Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Provider Preview Reports have been updated and are now available for nursing facility providers to access through the iQIES.

Nursing facilities are reminded to remain diligent in their infection control practices to limit the spread of COVID-19 to residents and staff especially as cases of increased respiratory illnesses are on the rise. At the expiration of the PHE, DPH released guidance on Organizational Policies and Procedures for Mitigating Respiratory Illness.

On January 16, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued two MMWR articles describing changes in the 2025 immunization schedule for children, adolescents and adults. Changes related to older adults include new and updated recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV).

Today, a federal judge in Seattle, WA temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status.

The Healey administration announced that it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor to resolve an Unemployment Insurance Liability that was created during the Baker Administration.

On January 21, Governor Healey announced plans to invest at least $2.5 billion to modernize higher public education campuses over the next decade. The investments were announced as part of a bond bill – An Act to Build Resilient Infrastructure to Generate Higher Education Transformation (the BRIGHT Act).