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		<title>Nursing homes look for answers on generator costs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[News Service Of Florida]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Top Headlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2018 legislative session]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agency for Health Care Administration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[assisted living facilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beth Kidder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Azstalos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Elder Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Health Care Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Generator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Irma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lorne Simmons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nursing homes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Scott]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[With time running out to comply with what could be a $240 million generator mandate handed down by Gov. Rick Scott, nursing-home administrators and long-term care lobbyists left a Tuesday meeting without an indication of what, if anything the state will do to help offset the costs. Members of a nursing-home payment workgroup may have to wait until November before state Medicaid officials discuss generators and whether the facilities can be reimbursed under an existing cost-based reimbursement system that has&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Nursing home challenges moratorium, Medicaid cutoff</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[News Service Of Florida]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Broward County nursing home has filed a lawsuit seeking to block Gov. Rick Scott&#8216;s administration from cutting off Medicaid payments and carrying out a moratorium on patient admissions after the deaths of nine of the facility&#8217;s residents following Hurricane Irma. The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills filed the lawsuit late Tuesday in Leon County circuit court, seeking injunctions against orders issued last week by the state Agency for Health Care Administration. Those orders suspended the facility from the Medicaid&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Seniors group calls on feds to investigate nursing home deaths</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Rosica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Statewide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AARP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agency for Health Care Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ahca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Association of Retired Persons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Association of Mature American Citizens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brock Long]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Weber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal emergency management agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Rick Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Irma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The group that calls itself the conservative alternative to AARP is calling on the federal government to investigate the deaths of eight South Florida nursing home residents who died after Hurricane Irma knocked out their power. Dan Weber, founder and CEO of the Association of Mature American Citizens, sent a letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long asking the agency &#8220;to offer any and all assistance in the (state) investigations and, if necessary, conduct an investigation of its own,&#8221; according to&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Senate&#8217;s proposed hospital budget cuts, unlike House, spreads pain equally</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/senates-proposed-hospital-budget-cuts-unlike-house-spreads-pain-equally/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Schorsch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 22:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Top Headlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ahca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charity care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[four-tier system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislative Session]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safety-net hospitals]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the end of the Legislative Session mercifully (hopefully?) in sight, the discrepancies between Senate and House budgets on various issues are becoming more heightened. At times like these, the two sides need to learn how to swallow their pride when it’s clear one chamber has the better plan. This lesson would serve them — and the people of Florida, the ones they are supposed to be serving — when the subject turns to funding of our state’s hospitals. The&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rick Scott to D.C.: Give us a Medicaid block grant</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A.G. Gancarski]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[2017]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[HHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Senior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Price]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Florida Gov. Rick Scott appears in Jacksonville with Vice-President Mike Pence Saturday, and the governor set up that meeting with some direct words about the future of Medicaid in the state. “Today, the State of Florida is requesting greater flexibility from the federal government in running our statewide Medicaid program so we can deliver high-quality care without layers of government bureaucracy,&#8221; Scott said. &#8220;My goal is to turn the top-down, Washington-knows-best approach of the Obama administration on its head by requesting flexibilities&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bad nursing homes benefit from AHCA&#8217;s passive-aggressive war on #transparency</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/bad-nursing-homes-benefit-ahcas-passive-aggressive-war-transparency/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Florence Snyder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2017 20:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Statewide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Agency for Health Care Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ahca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Santich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orlando Sentinel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelisha Coleman]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Somebody please give Shelisha Coleman a big fat raise. The Agency for Health Care Administration&#8217;s (AHCA) high profile flack works hard duty playing hardball with some of Florida&#8217;s best reporters, but makes tens of thousands of dollars less than men paid by taxpayers to tell tall tales about #Transparency. Coleman had to drop a whopping load of horsefeathers on the Orlando Sentinel last week in a laughable effort to justify AHCA&#8217;s unlawful redactions to public records. Taking up the cause&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Steve Bahmer: Nursing home care in Florida has come a long way in the last 30 years</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/steve-bahmer-nursing-home-care-florida-come-long-way-last-30-years/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guest Author]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Statewide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agency for Health Care Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ahca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Families for Better Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LeadingAge Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nursing homes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US News & World Report]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since the early 1980s, when the state Agency for Health Care Administration conducted its last major overhaul of the Medicaid payment system for nursing homes, the quality of care in Florida nursing homes has vastly improved. Although there are still exceptions, Florida is no longer home to the flood of nursing home horror stories that Sunshine State residents heard so frequently, and from so many homes, in the early ‘80s. Improved regulatory oversight at AHCA and a payment system that&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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