Press Releases

LeadingAge PA President and CEO Garry Pezzano today issued the following statement on Gov. Josh Shapiro’s 2023-24 budget proposal.

LeadingAge PA, the leading voice for aging services in Pennsylvania, is pleased to announce it recently awarded Baptist Senior Family in Pittsburgh, PA a $50,000 grant through the Association’s Administrator-in-Training (AIT) Grant program.

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (Oct. xx, 2023) — A new survey of LeadingAge PA member nursing homes confirms that the professional caregiver worker shortage has shown no sign of improving. This comes at a time when state and federal governments are set to increase staffing mandates — leading most of the nonprofit and mission-driven communities surveyed to turn away residents who desperately need long-term care. Read the survey results in full here.

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (Aug. 24, 2023) — LeadingAge PA, the leading voice for senior services across Pennsylvania, today announced it has awarded 33 scholarships totaling nearly $40,000 through its 2023 Professional Development Scholarship program.

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (June 01, 2023) – LeadingAge PA, an association representing more than 400 senior services providers, today announced its new initiative — LTSS Evolve — aimed at igniting change within the aging services ecosystem and evolving the way care is delivered and regulated in Pennsylvania.

Highlights: More than half of member nursing homes continue to turn down residents due to worker shortage and funding gap $99 million Medicaid increase needed in 2023-24 budget 7 of 10 PA nursing home residents rely on Medicaid