Last week the Senate passed what is loosely termed a "jobs" bill that included a $16 billion appropriation to extend the ehanced Medicaid match created via the ARRA (Stimulus bill) to June 30, 2011. Without the extension of funding, states are facing a loss of the additional Medicaid matching dollars on December 31. Upon passage by the Senate, Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the House back into special session to take up the measure. The House was/is on recess through…

Forty years ago, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

wrote “On

Death and Dying” and her theories have been used ever since to help

caregivers provide support to…

Prepared by:

Jeff Duncan Brecht

Attorney

Sussman Shank, LLP

503-243-1652

Long Term Care Industry and Other Employers Still Await EEOC Regulations on Law that Prohibits Employers from Considering Genetic Information In Making Workplace Decisions…