Stay up-to-date with legislation and policy that will impact Florida's "Greatest Generation."
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17 February 2011
Tort Reform
In 2001, legislators created landmark elder care reform through mandated increased minimum staffing requirements, tougher regulation, quality improvement and risk management programs for nursing homes. The result of SB 1202 has been the steady improvement of quality care for residents. Today,... Read more
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17 February 2011
Protect Funding for Nursing Home Quality Care
Nursing homes serve our most vulnerable citizens: frail elders who require complex medical care, 24-hours a day. Today’s greater variety of acute care, rehabilitative and convalescent services that nursing homes provide cannot be delivered elsewhere. Medicaid plays a critical role in the... Read more
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17 February 2011
Streamlining the Regulatory Process
Landmark elder care reform passed by the Florida Legislature in 2001 (SB 1202) has resulted in tougher regulation, increased staffing requirements and quality improvement and risk management programs, all of which are enforced through a combined state and federal survey process of the Agency for... Read more
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17 February 2011
Medicaid Reform
Florida’s nursing homes care for the state’s most vulnerable population, nearly 71,000 individuals with complex medical needs who are unable to be cared for in any other setting. Florida is one of the best states at ensuring individuals requiring long term care services receive... Read more