President signs opioid bill
President Trump on Oct. 24 signed into law a sweeping 660-page bipartisan opioid package, H.R. 6 (115), that bundles dozens of bills aimed at...
FDA considers ban on flavored cigars
The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is scaling up efforts to fight youth tobacco addiction with potential regulation that would ban all flavored cigars....
LeadingAge launches Center for Managed Care Solutions and Innovations
To help members better understand alternative payment models, LeadingAge has launched a new website resource to help address concerns, as well as enable members...
Don’t be a dealer, turn in unused prescriptions Oct. 27
The 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Administration, will take place Oct. 27. The event is an opportunity...
Demographics dashboard now available on HRSA website
The Department of Health & Human Services Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) has added a demographics dashboard to their data website, data.hrsa.gov. The...
HealthCare.gov hacked, customer privacy breached
Customer privacy on a key Obamacare enrollment portal, HealthCare.gov, was hacked in the past week, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
County health rankings report released by RWJ Foundation
Does where a person live influence health? Research shows the answer to that question is yes. The Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation, in collaboration...
New tools available for infection control
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have made available free, downloadable Quick...
Advance care planning group launches website
In order to meet South Dakota’s needs for advance care planning (ACP), in 2015 the University of South Dakota’s Department of Nursing assembled an...
New skilled nursing facility cost comparison report available
CliftonLarsonAllen, a LeadingAge partner, analyzed data from 2017 and found that nursing homes with the best financial performance averaged operating margins of 5 percent,...
