Dec. 07, 2007
Statement from Larry Minnix, President & CEO, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) on the Alliance for Healthcare Reform Hearing "Nursing Home Reforms: Twenty Years after OBRA ’87”
The twentieth anniversary of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987's (OBRA) passage is an appropriate time to assess the progress made to ensure that America's oldest and most vulnerable citizens receive the highest quality nursing home care.

Nov. 15, 2007
Statement from Larry Minnix, President & CEO, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, On the Senate Special Committee on Aging’s Hearing on Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement
WASHINGTON, D.C. – We commend Senate Special Committee on Aging for examining the commitment to transparency and quality improvement in America’s nursing homes. Quality should be an automatic public expectation, and we must continually assess how we can ensure that America's oldest and most vulnerable citizens receive the highest-quality nursing home care.

Nov. 1, 2007
AAHSA Selects 2008 Board of Directors
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) recently announced the association’s 2008 board of directors.

Sept. 21, 2007
AAHSA Recruits Dr. Mike Magee to Serve as Senior Fellow in Health Policy
Washington, D.C. – The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) recently recruited Mike Magee, MD, veteran health care leader, author and host of Health Commentary with Dr. Mike Magee, to serve as a Senior Fellow in Health Policy for the Center of Aging Services Technologies (CAST)

Aug. 30, 2007
AAHSA Members to “Live Your Story” at Annual Meeting in Orlando Wiesel, Poitier and Cosby Headline Event
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging’s (AAHSA) 2007 Annual Meeting & Exposition will offer more than 200 education sessions focused on helping aging-services providers continue to fulfill their commitment as not-for-profit organizations to make America a better place to grow old.

July 18, 2007
AAHSA Retains Dalpiaz to Lead Long-term Care Solution Project
Washington, D.C. - Elaine Dalpiaz has been retained by The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) to lead AAHSA’s campaign to advance bold reforms for financing long-term care in the U.S.

July 10, 2007
Statement from Larry Minnix, President & CEO American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA), On the Introduction of the CLASS Act

June 29, 2007
AAHSA Applauds Introduction of Legislation to Improve Section 202 Program
Washington, D.C. – The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging’s President and CEO Larry Minnix applauded the introduction of H.R. 2930, the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Act of 2007 by Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-Fla.). Congress Mahoney serves on the House Financial Services Committee, which oversees U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-sponsored affordable senior housing.

June 8, 2007
Statement from Larry Minnix, President & CEO, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA), on Nursing Home Survey Revisit User Fees
Nursing home inspections are essential for assuring quality and safety for residents. We applaud the leadership of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education for refusing to renew federal user fees for inspection revisits, which would not improve quality, but merely place onerous fees on top of existing fines. Although the fees would apply to all health care providers, nursing homes would bear the brunt because they are the only provider subject to annual inspections. The fee would have been imposed not only for on-site revisits but for surveyor’s telephone reviews, paper reviews, preparation and travel time.

May 16, 2007
Statement from Larry Minnix, President & CEO, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, On the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee’s Hearing on Payments to Health Care Providers
Quality in nursing home and home health care should be an automatic public expectation. The key to quality is strong staffing which requires, in part, the resources to pay workers better. Skilled nursing facilities and home health care providers need a payment update to ensure reasonable pay adjustments for staff.

May 3, 2007
New Issue Brief Offers Ways to Improve Respect and Retention in Long-term Care Workforce
Washington, D.C. - Building a foundation of respect in the long-term care workplace can increase direct care worker job satisfaction and retention and help providers embrace the growing racial and cultural diversity of their frontline staff, according to a new issue brief from Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC).

May 2, 2007
Statement from Larry Minnix, President & CEO, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) on the Senate Special Committee on Aging Hearing, "The Nursing Home Reform Act Turns Twenty: What Has Been Accomplished, and What Challenges Remain?"
The twentieth anniversary of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987's (OBRA) passage is an appropriate time to assess the progress made to ensure that America's oldest and most vulnerable citizen receive the highest quality nursing home care. In addition to exploring where we improvements are needed, we hope that this retrospective also will celebrate the ways in which nursing home care has advanced since OBRA enactment. Nursing homes are now participating in numerous quality improvement initiatives, such as Quality First and the Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes campaign, to achieve excellence and earn the public's trust.

April 23, 2007
Statement from Larry Minnix, President & CEO, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) on the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) Report on Nursing Home Oversight
Washington, D.C. — The GAO's latest report on nursing home oversight comes to a conclusion that we can all support: there should be two types of nursing homes: the excellent and the non-existent.

April 18, 2007
Magazine Shares Latest Research and Programs to Help Long-Term Care Providers Better Support Their Workforce
Long-term care providers can find workforce solutions and suggestions in the March/April issue of FutureAge, the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging's (AAHSA) bi-monthly magazine. The issue, which is available online at www.bjbc.org focuses on the findings and lessons learned from Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC). BJBC is a four-year research initiative managed by AAHSA's Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS), developed to help providers find innovative ways to recruit and retain a high-quality direct care workforce in long-term care.

April 10, 2007
AAHSA Recruits New Senior Vice President for Business and Corporate Relations
Washington, D.C. – The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) recently recruited Zachary Sikes to serve as AAHSA's first Senior Vice President for Business and Corporate Relations

March 19, 2007
New Guide Helps Consumers Identify Quality in Aging Services
A new tool from the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) can help older adults and their loved ones ask long-term care organizations they are considering a series of questions that will help them find high-quality care and services to meet their needs.

Feb. 5, 2007
Statement from Larry Minnix, President & CEO, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging on the Proposed FY2008 Budget

Jan. 18, 2007
"Innovation Meets Action" at AAHSA Conference in March
The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging's 2007 (AAHSA) Future of Aging Services Conference, March 19-21 at the Marriot Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., will offer more than education 25 sessions designed to help attendees become the provider of choice in their communities as well as entire day of sessions about the value of embracing technology to transform aging services.

Jan. 9, 2007
New Home for the New Year... Not Likely
AAHSA (the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging) and AARP today challenged the Administration and Congress to reverse alarming trends in housing for low income older Americans as the 2008 budget debate gets underway.

Jan. 4, 2007
Statement from Larry Minnix, President & CEO American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) on the Medicaid Commission Report
We are disappointed that a commission charged to "advise on ways to modernize the Medicaid program so that it can provide high-quality health care to its beneficiaries in a financially sustainable way," did not recommend policies that would reduce the aging-services field's reliance on Medicaid to ensure quality care and services for older adults.

Jan. 2, 2007
Marvin Mashner accepts seat on CARF Board of Directors
Citing Marvin Mashner's distinguished career in health and aging services, members of the CARF Board of Directors unanimously voted him to a seat on the eleven-member board.