The recording of last month’s webinar: Health Care Personnel Influenza Vaccination for Long Term Care Facilities is now available for viewing.

Mass Senior Care brought together long term care professionals from across the state at its 2017 Annual Meeting & Trade Show held at the DCU Center in Worcester on November 9th.

CMS announced a partial delay of Phase II of the Requirements of Participation (RoP) rule late last week. The Survey and Certification Group (S&C) at CMS issued two memos just after the Thanksgiving holiday delaying enforcement provisions of the rule, but were short of a complete delay.

Governor Charlie Baker earlier this week took the following actions on the State Fiscal Year 2018 budget recommendation that was sent to him by the Legislature

The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) on September 29th issued a Notice of Final Agency Action in regard to the Medicaid nursing facility rate regulation revising payment rates effective October 1, 2017.