Long Term Care Community Coalition

09/17/2025

09/16/2025

Join us today at 1pm ET for a free webinar on Nursing Home Oversight and Disability Law: The Fight to Improve State Enforcement

On Tuesday, September 16 at 1pm ET, The Long Term Care Community Coalition is hosting a FREE webinar, Nursing Home Oversight and Disability Law: The Fight to Improve State Enforcement. We'll take a look at Conner v. Maryland Department of Health, a landmark case alleging that Maryland’s oversight failures left nursing home residents without needed inspections or enforcement. We’ll explore what this means for state accountability and resident protections nationwide.

Speakers: Regan Bailey (Justice in Aging), Liam McGivern (Justice in Aging), Toby Edelman (Center for Medicare Advocacy), and Debra Gardner (Public Justice)

Register here: https://bit.ly/sept-2025-webinar

09/11/2025

This is Assisted Living Week, a good time to remind our Facebook friends that being a smart consumer of assisted living services is crucial. Many people don't realize that there are no federal safety standards whatsoever for assisted living: no requirements for safe staffing, no requirements for training, and no requirements to report when a resident is harmed.

We welcome you to check out and share the resources on our assisted living page, including guides to improve resident care, dignity, and choice.

US Senate Holds Hearing on Assisted Living Gallery US Senate Holds Hearing on Assisted Living Assisted Living US Senate Holds Hearing on Assisted Living LTCCC testimony calls for national standards promoting quality, safety, and integrity in assisted living January 26, 2024 – Yesterday, the United...

09/09/2025

“It's extremely rare for a nursing home operator to have their provider agreement removed... What this really indicates to me is that a tremendous amount of bad things have gone on in this facility for a long enough period of time that the government has said, ‘OK, we're going to do the last possible thing we can do to save residents and to protect the community." - Richard Mollot, LTCCC executive director

News 3 is following up on a nursing home in the Landstown area that was reported last month as being at risk of shutting down for failing to meet federal health and safety standards.

09/03/2025

Unlawful or poorly managed transfers and discharges are among the most common and distressing violations experienced by nursing home residents. These actions can lead to trauma, hospitalization, and even homelessness.

In the latest issue of the Elder Justice Newsletter, we highlight deficiencies where nursing homes failed to follow federal transfer and discharge requirements, putting vulnerable residents at serious risk:

🔹 Blue lips and unresponsive: Resident discharged without oxygen, arrives in medical crisis.
🔹 Medication confusion: Five residents discharged without medications or follow-up care.
🔹 Kicked out on Christmas: Resident discharged without proper notice.
🔹 “Never been homeless before”: Resident discharged to a homeless shelter.
🔹 “Walking with a Swiffer brand mop”: Resident discharged twice without equipment, care, or housing.
🔹 “No one knew what to do”: Residents discharged without home health, equipment, or wound care.

Read the full issue at NursingHome411:

Silenced in the Shower: Elder Justice “No Harm” Newsletter (Volume 7, Issue 5) In the Elder Justice Newsletter, we highlight citations, including deficiencies related to abuse, neglect, and substandard care, that have been identified as not causing any resident harm. The goal of this brief newsl...

09/03/2025

New York Attorney General James announced a $12 million settlement with the owners of a Syracuse nursing home after her investigation uncovered years of financial fraud, neglect, and resident harm. Residents deserve care, not corporate profiteering.

Read more in LTCCC's latest Senior Care Policy Brief:

Senior Care Policy Brief: Protecting Care, Not Profits Subscribe to LTCCC’s Senior Care Policy BriefThe Senior Care Policy Briefing covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research. Read the full Senior Care Policy Briefing below or downloa...

08/27/2025

On August 25th, NY Attorney General James announced a significant settlement against a major New York nursing home chain, the Upstate Services Group, which operates 17 nursing homes across the state. The facility at the focus of this action, the Van Duyn nursing home in Syracuse, has a long history of horrifying reports of neglect and substandard care in the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Read LTCCC's full alert at NursingHome411.

Special Alert on NYS Attorney General’s Settlement with Upstate Services Group “to Stop Resident Neglect and Financial Fraud” at its Van Duyn Nursing Home August 27, 2025 – On August 25, NY Attorney General James announced a significant settlement against a major New York nursing home chain,...

08/26/2025

On Tuesday, September 16 at 1pm ET, The Long Term Care Community Coalition is hosting a FREE webinar, Nursing Home Oversight and Disability Law: The Fight to Improve State Enforcement. We'll take a look at Conner v. Maryland Department of Health, a landmark case alleging that Maryland’s oversight failures left nursing home residents without needed inspections or enforcement. We’ll explore what this means for state accountability and resident protections nationwide.

Speakers: Regan Bailey (Justice in Aging), Liam McGivern (Justice in Aging), Toby Edelman (Center for Medicare Advocacy), and Debra Gardner (Public Justice)

Register here: https://bit.ly/sept-2025-webinar

08/25/2025

Select Staffing Facts for Q1 2025:

🔸 The average U.S. nursing home provided 3.75 total nurse staff hours per resident day (HPRD), including 0.61 HPRD for registered nurses (RNs).
🔸 The staffing expectation model shows that 90.2% of nursing homes reported staffing levels below their expected HPRD.
🔸 The median nursing home fell 24.9% short of expected total nurse staffing levels and 42.3% short of expected RN staffing levels.
🔸 36% of facilities reported zero (0) presence of a medical director, despite federal requirements that a medical director oversee the quality of clinical care provided in every facility.
🔸 The average facility provided less than ½ minute per resident day of a mental health service worker’s time.

See more staffing data at NursingHome411.org

https://nursinghome411.org/data/staffing/staffing-q1-2025/

LTCCC’s Q1 2025 Staffing Report provides user-friendly files containing data on: 1) Nurse staff levels (RN, LPN, and CNA, including Admin & DON, NA in Training, Med Aide/Tech.), including contract staff ratios; 2) Important non-nursing staff levels, including administrators and activities staff; 3...

08/15/2025

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will increase Medicare payments to skilled nursing facilities by 3.2% in 2026, providing an estimated $1.36 billion in additional funding.

While providers welcome the increase, it is unlikely that these taxpayer dollars will result in much needed improvements to staffing and quality without meaningful oversight and accountability.

Read more in the latest Senior Care Policy Brief:

Senior Care Policy Brief: Billions for Nursing Homes – Where’s the Oversight? Subscribe to LTCCC’s Senior Care Policy BriefThe Senior Care Policy Briefing covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research. Read the full Senior Care Polic...

08/13/2025

Kudos to Virginia Gov Youngkin for stepping up to address widespread nursing home neglect and abuse! https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2025/august/name-1054856-en.html

Want to see action in your state? Visit https://nursinghome411.org/find-legislators/ to find contact info for your governor and legislative reps.

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08/12/2025

Join LTCCC and special guest Deborah Truhowsky this Thursday, August 14 at 11am ET for our August 2025 Hudson Valley Nursing Home Update, where we’ll take a closer look at:

🔹 New data on local nursing home performance, including staffing, citations, and star ratings
🔹 Abuse and neglect — how to recognize it, what your legal rights are, and what steps you can take to protect your loved ones.

As always, this program is free and open to the public. Register now and feel free to share this invitation with your networks!

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