Posted on: May 28, 2020
Florida Health Care Association shares the Governor’s desire to get our care centers back to a time when they can experience some form of normalcy. We know that families are anxious and looking forward to the day when they can wrap their arms around their loved ones. We also know our residents want their care centers to return to the…
Posted on: May 05, 2020
The key to slowing the spread of COVID-19 is adequate and timely testing, since we know the virus can be spread by people who don’t show any symptoms. We applaud the Governor for this latest emergency rule requiring hospitals to test all patients before they are transferred to our care centers. This ensures nursing centers will be able to make…
Posted on: Apr 28, 2020
In a recent letter to Gov. DeSantis, Florida Health Care Association asked the Governor to sign a budget that retains the needed Medicaid rate increase for nursing center care to ensure Florida’s frail elders continue receiving high-quality, long term care and to support centers with meeting the challenges of COVID-19 to ensure resident and staff safety.
Posted on: Apr 23, 2020
As Florida joins the nation in weighing the difficult question of how and when to reopen the country, it’s vitally important for everyone to remember that for many, including our long-term care facilities, the battle with COVID-19 is far from over. Our long-term caregivers are still on the frontline in the fight against this pandemic, and we are fortunate to…
Posted on: Apr 21, 2020
If the account in the news media is accurate, it is heartbreaking and frustrating that our elderly residents were subject to those shameful conditions by this operator. FHCA has hundreds of members whose top priority, always, is excellent care and the well-being of their residents. We want to tell Floridians the rest of the story where our state regulators worked…
Posted on: Apr 18, 2020
It’s been clear since the beginning that Governor DeSantis shares our goal of protecting our state’s elders in this fight against COVID-19. All of us are working vigilantly to address the massive challenges this pandemic places on our caregivers who continue to remain focused on keeping their residents safe. Since the beginning, we have supported transparency to our residents, families…
Posted on: Apr 16, 2020
The Florida Health Care Association (FHCA) today provided a briefing to members of the Florida Legislature, updating lawmakers on the status of its member nursing centers’ and assisted living facilities’ response to the COVID-19 crisis. During the telephone briefing, FHCA Executive Director Emmett Reed was joined by Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Mary Mayhew and members of FHCA’s Emergency…
Posted on: Apr 01, 2020
The Florida Health Care Association (FHCA) today hailed a new state-approved program that will allow nursing homes to hire Personal Care Attendants to provide basic care services to their elder residents, freeing up more highly trained nursing professionals to provide more skilled care amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Posted on: Mar 18, 2020
We appreciate our state leaders for their ongoing support of our long term care centers as we remain focused on the essential task of keeping our residents safe. Despite these significant and meaningful efforts, there is great concern that many nursing homes and assisted living facilities are already at the point of exhausting their supplies of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).…
Posted on: Mar 11, 2020
“We thank Governor Ron DeSantis, AHCA Secretary Mayhew and Florida’s Division of Emergency Management Director Moskowitz for their support in communicating how critical it is to prevent COVID-19 from entering long term care centers. Florida Health Care Association (FHCA) is encouraging nursing centers to implement the guidance from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement stricter policies…
Posted on: Mar 02, 2020
“The trained health care professionals at Florida’s nursing centers are taking the threat of Coronavirus most seriously, as the safety and well-being of residents and staff is always our highest priority. Our members are focused on minimizing the potential risks by boosting preventive actions and utilizing fundamental infection control protocols, including the use of eye protection, standard hand hygiene procedures,…
Posted on: Jan 29, 2020
Funding and quality care go hand in hand, and we’re thankful the Legislature recognized that in the development of their initial budgets. Florida has an increasingly growing aging population, and both the Senate and House budgets are an important step toward meeting their long-term health care needs, whether in their home or in a nursing center when the time and…
