Florida ALF News This Week
Published: Fri, 10/07/22
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Residents from nine facilities still shuttered are staying in nearby skilled nursing centers, where staff are working to make them feel comfortable and monitor for "transfer trauma."
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Demand, measured by change in occupied units, outpaced new supply while marking its sixth consecutive quarter of positive increases.
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When Miami-Dade police asked for help finding 29-year-old Kenneth Wiggins on Tuesday, the agency gave a North Miami-Dade address and said it was an assisted living facility. A Google search of the address indicates a United Cerebral Palsy office is located there.
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"It's due to go up about six more inches ... and now we've had to close the island off," said Alan Harris, Seminole County emergency manager. "It's just not safe to get in and out."
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Independent Living Systems (ILS), a national health care services company, announced that its Long-Term Care Plus Florida Medicaid health plan, Florida