LeadingAge New York addresses concerns with this bill which directs the Commissioners of Health and the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to promulgate regulations to require nursing homes and adult care facilities (ACFs) to allow residents to receive “personal caregiving” and “compassionate caregiving” visitors.

LeadingAge NY supports this legislation, which would increase needed funds to enable Adult Care Facilities (ACFs) to continue to care for recipients who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI). 

LeadingAge NY opposes this legislation which would codify NY regulations and federal law as they relate to the transfer and discharge of patients from nursing homes.

LeadingAge supports this legislation.  This bill would allow the latter threshold for PCS services to include patient populations, in addition and very similar to those with Alzheimer's and dementia - particularly individuals with traumatic brain injury, cognitive impairment, developmental disability, blindness, or visual impairment.

This bill would clarify that individuals living in senior housing have the right to access and obtain the same services that they would if they were an individual residing in the community, from the provider of their choosing. These services include personal care, home care, case management, technologies, and other community services that support them to live independently in the community. LeadingAge NY supports this legislation.

LeadingAge New York strongly opposes A.3397/S.5177, which would repeal the Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act [Public Health Law Article 30-D, the “Act”]. This critically important legislation provides health care providers and professionals with reasonable immunity from liability during the COVID-19 pandemic emergency.

Establishes an Affordable Senior Housing and Services Program with its own rules and scoring criteria and provides for optional basic healthy aging services for senior housing residents.

LeadingAge New York supports this legislation, which would authorize the integration of individuals with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) sustained after age twenty-one into certified developmental disabilities (DD) programs.