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Anne-Marie Bajwa, president and CEO of the Charles River Center, Needham, Massachusetts, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. We receive funding from several state agencies including the Massachusetts Department of Developmental…

Benjamin Brooks, assistant director of policy, and Daniel Bruner, senior director of policy, at Whitman-Walker have issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. Reg. 27846, Whitman-Walker Health and the Whitman-Walker Institute submit these…

Connor Jobes, manager for federal policy at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the nation's largest organization dedicated to…

Jody Rabhan, chief policy officer of the National Council of Jewish Women, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. The comment was written on Dec. 4, 2020, and posted on Dec. 8, 2020:. The National Council of Jewish Women is pleased to provide…

John Tschida, executive director of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. The Association of University Centers on Disabilities appreciates the opportunity to provide…

Dec. 19— WILMINGTON, N.C.— Debbie Elliott, a broker with Nest Realty, has earned the nationally recognized Seniors Real Estate Specialist designation from the SRES Council of the National Association of REALTORS. Elliott joins more than 15,000 real estate professionals in North America who have earned the SRES designation. As owner of Talk Inc., a Wilmington, NC-…

Dec. 19— When the nonprofit Tower Health bought three Chester County hospitals that had been for-profit since the early 2000 s, Maureen Tomoschuk was delighted. She had a hard time getting help from Community Health Systems Inc., the for-profit that sold Brandywine, Jennersville, and Phoenixville Hospitals to Tower. Advised by the gold-plated consulting firm…

The Oklahoma State Senate issued the following news release:. Rob Standridge, R- Norman, is once again raising concern regarding managed care organizations after the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report finding access and quality problems in managed care. The governor and Oklahoma Health Care Authority are currently exploring managed…

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan disaster mitigation bill introduced by U.S. Representatives Angie Craig and Rodney Davis to help communities across the country prepare for and rebuild from extreme weather events. The Safeguarding Tomorrow through Ongoing Risk Mitigation Act- the Senate counterpart to Craig and Davis' Resilience…

American Council of Life Insurers President and CEO Susan Neely made the following comments on retirement savings legislation introduced today by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Senator Maggie Hassan, and Senator Jim Lankford:. That includes the Retirement Security and Savings Act introduced by Senators Rob Portman and Ben Cardin, and…

John Thune, R- South Dakota, issued the following news release:. John Thune and Sherrod Brown this week introduced the Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act, bipartisan legislation that requires private insurance companies that operate Medicare Advantage plans to establish an electronic prior authorization system to approve medical services in a…

Gina Raimondo, D- Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Dec. 18:. In her place, Governor Gina M. Raimondo will nominate former Medicaid Director Patrick M. Tigue. I am thrilled to welcome Patrick back to Rhode Island and am confident we will continue our progress under his leadership. “

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release:. The Michigan Court of Appeals has agreed with a probate court judge and the Michigan Department of Attorney General that a now-deceased St. Clair County woman lacked the capacity to sign her estate over to her guardian, a senior retirement community leasing agent who drafted the will to…

Rodney Davis, R- Illinois, issued the following news release:. S. 3418 is the Senate counterpart to legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Rodney Davis and Rep. “Severe weather and catastrophic events cause great strain on local economies and municipal budgets in cities and towns in Illinois like Grafton and many others across the country,” said Rep. Davis.

Korian, the leading European care services group for elderly and fragile people, has signed a Euros55 million loan agreement with the European Investment Bank, the EU bank. This 10- year loan will finance Korian's capital contribution to SCI Fonciere Ages&Vie, created in May 2019 and jointly owned with Banque des Territoires and Credit Agricole Assurances,…

Environmental Research Letters, a journal that says it covers environmental science, published research articles, including the following topics, in its November 2020 edition:. *Sociotechnical typologies for national energy transitions. *Responding to simultaneous crises: communications and social norms of mask behavior during wildfires and COVID-19.

Thomas Gremillion, director of food policy at the Consumer Federation of America, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services notice of proposed rulemaking entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. Consumer Federation of America submits the following comments on the above referenced proposed…

Leo V. Sarkissian, executive director of the Arc of Massachusetts, Waltham, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services notice of proposed rulemaking entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. On behalf of The Arc of Massachusetts, I am writing in response to the notice of proposed regulations the…