Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell this week issued an advisory to reinforce the regulatory requirements temporary nursing agencies must follow regarding the permissible rates that may be charged to long-term care facilities.

Governor Healey yesterday signed into law a $1.1 billion fiscal year 2023 Supplemental Budget to provide additional funding for core state programs.

Last week the Massachusetts Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Disease and all other Dementias approved and submitted to the legislature it’s 2022 Annual Report. The annual report includes the Council’s progress during 2022 and its next steps for 2023.

The RCA to CNA Pipeline: Leveraging Rapid Upward Mobility Wednesday, March 29, 2023 10:30 am to 11:30 AM To address our historic, frontline worker shortage, it is critically necessary that facilities adopt the Resident Care Assistant (RCA) to Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) pipeline as a key strategy to grow your own workforce. The RCA position was designed specifically to support existing nursing staff, assist with resident care, and create an accessible path for career advancement to CNA. Learn how to

Massachusetts of Department of Public Health Registry of Vital Records and Statistics (RVRS) has embarked on a 21st Century Modernization Project. Included in this project is streamlining the death pronouncement process and creating an on-line feature through their newly developed and implemented electronic system.

Beginning today, March 24th at 9:00 p.m. ET, there will be a planned upgrade to the Secure Access Management Service (SAMS) database.

Candida auris (C. auris) was recently named one of five urgent threats in the CDC Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States. There are active cases of C. auris in long term care facilities in Massachusetts and across the country.

Mass Senior Care has long supported and advocated for the conversion of the Medicaid MMQ payment system to the Federal MDS acuity system thereby eliminating the administrative burden of operating 2 acuity systems and to better capture the cost of resident care.

The Legislature yesterday enacted and laid before the Governor a $1.1 billion fiscal year 2023 Supplemental Budget to provide additional funding for core state programs.