On Monday, the Joint Committee on Elder Affairs held a hearing on long term care services and supports including Senate Bill 352 and House Bill 610. Nursing home operators, vendors, caregivers, residents and family members testified at the hearing on the critical need to update funding for nursing facility care to stabilize the sector.

On March 30th, Tara Gregorio, President of Mass Senior Care, presented testimony to the House Committee on Ways and Means urging the Legislature to update MassHealth funding for nursing facility care in State Fiscal Year 2020 using more current 2017 labor and resident care costs. Gregorio noted that the funding is critically needed to protect access to quality resident care and to address the growing nursing facility financial and workforce crisis. The Commonwealth’s nursing facilities are facing an unprecedented financial

The Joint Committee on Elder Affairs will be accepting public testimony on Senate Bill 352 and House Bill 610, Acts Relative to Stabilizing the Commonwealth’s Nursing Facilities on Monday, April 8, 2019 at 1:00 PM at the Massachusetts State House in hearing room A-1. This important legislation filed by Representative Tom Golden, Jr. (D-Lowell), Senate President Emerita Harriette Chandler (D-Worcester) and scores of co-sponsors would modernize the state’s funding formula for nursing home care. There will be panels of nursing

Tara Gregorio, President of Mass Senior Care, presented testimony to the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development in support of House Bill 1647 which would repeal the Employer Medical Assistance Contribution (EMAC) Tax.