Residents' Rights Month is held each October and honors long-term care residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. Each year, residents living in long-term facilities are celebrated to bring awareness to their individual rights under the Nursing Home Reform Law. The following information was sent out by Missoula Aging Services: Across the country, residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities along with family members, Ombudsman program representatives, citizen advocates, facility staff, and others will honor the individual rights of long-term care residents by celebrating Residents’ Rights Month. Residents’ Rights Month is an annual event held in October by the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care (Consumer Voice) to celebrate and focus on awareness of dignity, respect, and the value of long-term care residents.
With open enrollment just around the corner, employers are looking for new ways to offer high-quality healthcare benefits at the lowest possible cost to their employees and their organization. One of the most popular tactics? Implementing digital healthcare options into health benefits packages.
The Oregon Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the financial practices of Providence Health & Services, the state’s largest hospital group. The consumer protection arm of the department is leading the probe, said Kristina Edmunson, spokesperson for the department. It is at this point a civil investigation rather than criminal, she added.
Even before the pandemic, Dr. Julia Joseph-Di Caprio felt intuitively how challenging life was for many Minnesotans. The data she saw as senior vice president and chief medical officer at health plan nonprofit UCare confirmed it. Kids were getting further behind on things like routine immunizations and well visits. COVID-19 presented additional challenges.
South Dakota is poised to expand its state Medicaid program to more than 40,000 people in November, the culmination of a years-long strategy from progressives to broaden Obamacare’s reach in deeply red states.
