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Understanding the push to increase the state's Medicaid reimbursement rate for nursing homes

Glen Cooper, president and CEO of Friendly Senior Living; Sue Murty, vice president and administrator at St. Ann’s Community; and New York State Assemblymember Jen Lunsford discuss how an increase in the state's Medicaid reimbursement rate for nursing homes will help ensure that residents get the care and services they need and deserve in an appearance on WXXI's Connections with Evan Dawson.

January 31, 2023

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Artist gives life to her late mother-in-law

Maryna Bilak: CARE, an exhibition at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale's Derfner Judaica Museum inspired by the experience of caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease, is spotlighted in a new article in The Riverdale Press.

January 31, 2023

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Hebrew Home campus co-generates

A new article in The Riverdale Press spotlights how the Hebrew Home at Riverdale is harnessing the power of clean energy with its state-of-the-art cogeneration system.

January 30, 2023

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Holocaust Remembrance with Jacqueline Kimmelstiel

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, RiverWalk resident Jacqueline Kimmelstiel, age 95, shares her story of hiding from German soldiers for 12 years until the end of World War II.

January 27, 2023

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Music & Synchronized Light Produce Positive Effects in Treating Alzheimer's

Dr. David Gentner, president of Wartburg and the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF), with the support of IMNF Executive Director Concetta Tomaino, recently volunteered to participate in a user-experience research trial with the most recent Oscillo Biosciences prototype device, studying the effects of the use of music and synchronized light in treating Alzheimer's disease.

January 26, 2023

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Alliance seeks more support from state for nursing homes

Andy Cruikshank, CEO of Fort Hudson Health System, and Brian Nealon, CEO of The Wesley Community, discuss the urgent need for a 20 percent increase in nursing home payments in the upcoming state budget, and for the rates to be adjusted to account for inflation, in a new interview with The Post-Star.

January 25, 2023

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Senior communities anticipate wants and needs when adding services

Loren Ranaletta, president of Episcopal Church Home Foundation and former president and CEO of Episcopal SeniorLife Communities (ESLC); Lisa Marcello, current president and CEO of ESLC; and Charlie Runyon, CEO of St. John’s, discuss how their organizations are anticipating and reacting to what older adults want and need in a new interview with the Rochester Business Journal.

January 25, 2023

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Bipartisan push begins for 20% Medicaid increase to aid long-term care

A bipartisan group of lawmakers and leaders from Daughters of Sarah Community for Seniors, Fort Hudson Health System, St. Peter's Health Partners, and The Wesley Community rallied in the state Capitol on Jan. 24th to urge Governor Hochul to increase the state's Medicaid reimbursement rate for long term care by 20 percent in her Executive Budget.

January 24, 2023

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The Manor at Seneca Hill Graduates Three Certified Nursing Assistants

The Manor at Seneca Hill recently graduated three new certified nursing assistants – Emily Young, Esmeralda Arreazola and Kyraih Maliszewski – from its on-the-job training and paid certification program.

January 24, 2023

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How Nursing Homes Can Adapt to Intensified CMS Psychotropic Drug Oversight

Sandra Mundy, senior administrator at The New Jewish Home, Manhattan, discusses the facility's non-pharmacological approach to care that has resulted in a low percentage of residents on psychotropic medications in a new interview with Skilled Nursing News.

January 23, 2023
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