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'This is long enough': Nursing home residents seek raise in $50 personal needs stipend, 40 years in the making

A new WROC segment spotlights efforts by Deborah Leary, a resident at Monroe Community Hospital, to increase the monthly $50 personal needs allowance for nursing home residents, which has remained unchanged since 1983.

May 30, 2025

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Gurwin virtual reality Immersion Room named innovation winner at 13th Annual Long Island Imagine Awards

Gurwin Healthcare System’s cutting-edge Immersion Room recently took home top prize in the Innovation category in the 13th Annual Long Island Imagine Awards.

May 29, 2025

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'We're ready every day': 1 nursing home CEO's 5-star leadership strategy

Daveth Forbes-Thomas, MSN, RN, CEO of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, discusses the lessons she has learned during her time at McKinney and what she sees for the nursing home’s future in a new interview with Becker’s Hospital Review.

May 27, 2025

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This polypharmacy initiative moved one-third of nursing home residents away from dangerous threshold

A new article in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News spotlights the United Hospital Fund’s recent adoption of a new tool that successfully assisted ArchCare at Mary Manning Walsh Home, Gouverneur Healthcare Services Skilled Nursing Facility, Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Jamaica Hospital Nursing Home, and The New Jewish Home in deprescribing frail, end-of-life residents.

May 27, 2025

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PoliticsNY and amNY Honor NYC Health + Hospitals and MetroPlusHealth Leaders on 2025 "AAPI Power Players" List

Dr. Khoi Luong, senior vice president of post-acute care at NYC Health + Hospitals, is one of three leaders from the health system and MetroPlusHealth named to PoliticsNY and amNY’s 2025 “AAPI Power Players” list.

May 23, 2025

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All Five NYC Health + Hospitals Post-Acute Care Facilities Recognized as LGBTQ+ Long-Term Care Equality Leaders by The Human Rights Campaign Foundation and SAGE

NYC Health + Hospitals announced that all five of its post-acute care facilities – Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center, Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Gouverneur Healthcare Services Skilled Nursing Facility, Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital & Nursing Facility, and Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center & Home – have been recognized as LGBTQ+ Long-Term Care Equality Leaders in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and SAGE’s 2025 Long-Term Care Equality Index.

May 23, 2025

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NYC Health + Hospitals/Coler Receives State-of-the-Art Equipment Upgrade from Wheelchair Charities Inc. to Expand Access to Rehabilitative Care

Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center announced a state-of-the-art equipment donation to its rehabilitation gym from longtime benefactor and founder of Wheelchair Charities, Inc., Henry J. ‘Hank’ Carter.

May 23, 2025

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Long Island senior care options expand as population ages

Stuart Almer, president and CEO of Gurwin Healthcare System; Michael N. Rosenblut, president and CEO of Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation; and Michael Tretola, CEO of St. Johnland Healthcare, discuss how their organizations are meeting the evolving needs of Long Island's growing aging population in a new interview with Long Island Business News.

May 22, 2025

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Some good news on workers' compensation

Michael S. King, president and CEO of Jewish Home, shares how the organization lowered its workers’ compensation experience modification rate and achieved numerous other cost-saving benefits in a new opinion piece in McKnight's Long-Term Care News.

May 20, 2025

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How seniors are skydiving, exercising and more with virtual reality

RiverSpring Living was featured on the May 19th edition of the Today Show, highlighting how its residents are embracing virtual reality to explore the world, relive memories, and connect in new ways.

May 19, 2025
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