Nursing Home Reform: The Federal Landscape
Richard Mollot of LTCCC, Eric Carlson with Justice in Aging, Toby Edelman of the Center for Medicare Advocacy and Rachel Dolin, Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, Majority Staff, will discuss the foundations of federal nursing home standards, issues related to the implementation of those standards over the years and, most recently, resulting from the rollbacks under the Trump Administration and the impact of COVID-19. The program will conclude with a roundtable discussion of the challenges and opportunities to improve quality and safety presented by a new Congress and presidential administration.
The panel will discuss:
- Nursing Home Reform Act: The Foundation of Nursing Home Standards
- Federal Enforcement Failures and Rollbacks
- COVID-19 & Federal Policies
- Opportunities & Challenges in Congress for Improving Nursing Home Quality & Safety
- Roundtable on Opportunities for Nursing Home Quality Improvement Under the Biden Administration
Co-Sponsors:
- Elder Law & Special Needs Section
- Special Committee on Long Term Care Facility Reform
- Committee on Disability Rights
- Long Term Care Community Coalition
- February 24, 2021
- 1:00 PM
- 2:30 PM
- 1.5
- 1.5
- Virtual Participation
- Nursing Home Reform Act: The Foundation of Nursing Home Standards
- Federal Enforcement Failures and Rollbacks
- COVID-19 & Federal Policies
- Opportunities & Challenges in Congress for Improving Nursing Home Quality & Safety
- Roundtable on Opportunities for Nursing Home Quality Improvement Under the Biden Administration
Richard Mollot of LTCCC, Eric Carlson with Justice in Aging, Toby Edelman of the Center for Medicare Advocacy and Rachel Dolin, Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, Majority Staff, will discuss the foundations of federal nursing home standards, issues related to the implementation of those standards over the years and, most recently, resulting from the rollbacks under the Trump Administration and the impact of COVID-19. The program will conclude with a roundtable discussion of the challenges and opportunities to improve quality and safety presented by a new Congress and presidential administration.
The panel will discuss:
- Andria Adigwe, Esq., Hinman Howard & Kattell
- Eric Carlson, Esq., Justice in Aging
- Rachel Dolin, PhD., Comm. on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, Majority Staff
- Toby Edelman, Esq., Center for Medicare Advocacy
- Richard Mollot, Esq., Long Term Care Community Coalition
- Webinar
- 0KD91
- Elder Law & Special Needs Section
