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Member Update: FDA Recall of Supplemental Shakes

Member Update: CHIA Issues 2024 Nursing Facility Cost Report Submission

Member Update: State Legislative FY2026 Budget Hearings Set to Begin; House Passes Budget Blueprint: Medicaid Cuts on The Table; Continued Hospital Capacity Constraints; President Trump Issues Executive Order Reinstating Cost Transparency in Healthcare; Nursing Center Quality Measures Unfrozen, FHCA Analyzes Impact on Provider Star Ratings; REMINDER: Dementia Special Care Unit Disclosure (DSCU) is due March 1st, 2025

Member Update: Outbreak Investigation of Listeria: Frozen Supplemental Shakes; ALR Annual Financial Disclosure Form; Informal Dispute Resolution Meeting; REMINDER: Dementia Special Care Unit Disclosure (DSCU) is due March 1st, 2025

Member Update: Temporary Protected Status for Haiti Partially Vacated; MassHealth Issues All Provider Bulletin on the Medicaid MMIS and Provider Online Service Center Migration to Amazon Web Services; Register Now for Important Upcoming Webinars

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. Nursing facilities must continue to identify and monitor respiratory illness metrics to indicate when there are increased levels which may necessitate implementing these infection control measures.

The U.S. House and U.S. Senate last week took initial steps to achieving budget reconciliation that are expected to rely heaving on large spending cuts to health care programs, including Medicaid, to advance President Trump’s legislative agenda to fund tax cuts and increase defense spending and fund border security.

Massachusetts Attorney General (AG) Andrea Joy Campbell has joined with Attorneys General from 15 other states to issue multi state guidance concerning diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) employment initiatives.