LeadingAge Texas in the News

November 27, 2022 - Texas senior care facilities face nursing shortage

November 15, 2022 - Texas’ nursing homes are missing something: nurses

August 13, 2022 - 'ArtsInspire' contest showcases the artistic talents of older Texans

June 28, 2022 - Texas lawmakers consider ‘workforce challenges’ in nursing homes, assisted living

January 27, 2022 - A Bezos Academy Preschool Is Coming to a Senior Living Community in Dallas

December 7, 2021 - With the federal vaccine mandate for health care workers halted, Texas nursing homes dodge furloughs and fines

November 1, 2021 - With mandates and more, is an LTC exodus still in store?

October 29, 2021 - Long-Term Care’s Employment Crisis

October 24, 2021 - State of Texas: ‘Fasten your seat belt’ — Redistricting battle moves from the Capitol to the courtroom

October 21, 2021 - Pleas answered: Texas providers set to receive nearly $400 million for staffing

October 19, 2021 - Texas lawmakers set aside millions of dollars to fill nursing home staffing shortages

October 12, 2021 - Abbott vaccine mandate ban creating confusion for short-staffed nursing homes

October 12, 2012 - Nursing Home Essential Caregiver Protection on the November Ballot as Constitutional Amendment

October 5, 2021 - Texas nursing homes ask the state for $400 million from American Rescue Plan Act

October 1, 2021 - Texas nursing homes turn to state for help with staffing woes as vaccine mandate looms

September 30, 2021 - Survey highlights ‘urgent need’ for staffing in assisted living, skilled nursing

September 15, 2021 - Leaders Urge Texas to Allocate $400M to Bolster SNF Staffing as 30% of Facilities Have Restricted Admissions

September 1, 2021 - ‘Most important moment in decades’ for older adults, families’: LeadingAge

August 31, 2021 - Staffing Shortages Force Home Health Giant Bayada to Deny 64% of Referrals in Key Markets

August 31, 2021 - Long-Term Care Workforce Investment, Medicaid Boost, Could Pay ‘Huge Dividends’

August 19, 2021 - North Texas long-term care facilities working on plan to get residents, staff COVID-19 booster shot

March 22, 2021 - Gulf in data paints conflicting picture of Texas' vaccine rollout in nursing homes

March 17, 2021 - After COVID-19 closed nursing homes to visitors, bill to ensure access clears Texas Senate

March 8, 2021 - Lawmakers must address nursing home workforce crisis to ensure quality care

March 2, 2021 - ‘Alarming’ nurse turnover rates linked to quality, payment woes in major new nursing home study

January 2, 2021 - Likely thousands of nursing home residents still waiting on vaccines as distribution expands across Texas

December 4, 2020 - Nursing home residents added to first wave of Texans eligible for COVID-19 vaccine

November 13, 2020 - Supply chain management challenges continue to plague senior living providers: LeadingAge panel

Sept 9, 2020 - ‘This Isn’t Sustainable’: Covid-19 Testing Pushes Senior Living Providers Closer to Financial Crises

Sept 3, 2020 - Texas nursing homes must routinely test staff for COVID-19 or face fines

Aug 24, 2020 - Combatting ‘another pandemic’ related to COVID-19

Aug 24, 2020 - Nearly 12k nursing homes receiving point-of-care testing in second distribution wave

Aug 21, 2020 - Only 12 Texas nursing homes approved to restart family visits

Aug 17, 2020 - Editorial: Texas must fight the other outbreak plaguing nursing homes — loneliness

Aug 10, 2020 - Long-term care groups, 490 others, call for enactment of COVID-related legal protections ‘as soon as possible’

Aug 5, 2020 - Group fears snags in nursing-home testing plan

Aug 5, 2020 - Test supplies sent to eldercare facilities by feds will last only a couple rounds

Aug 4, 2020 - No Brazos County nursing homes selected to receive point-of-care device promised by Trump administration

Aug 3, 2020 - Trump nursing home plan limits supply of free COVID-19 tests

Aug 3, 2020 - Proposed bill would protect employers from COVID-19-related lawsuits — is it safe to work?

July 30, 2020 - Isolating our seniors is no longer an option

July 29, 2020 - George Linial, Diana Martinez & Kevin Warren: Time to break the isolation for nursing home residents

July 29, 2020 - Aging services leaders plead with Congress to consider nursing homes in next relief bill

July 29, 2020 - As COVID-19 Testing Devices Ship Out to Nursing Homes, Securing Adequate Supplies Could Take Six Months

July 29, 2002 - Errors, discrepancies found between state and federal COVID-19 data for Texas nursing homes

July 15, 2020 - Coronavirus is rapidly spreading in Texas nursing homes, state figures show