Fair Housing in Action for Home and Community Based Services
Event Schedule
July 30, 2026 I 10:30–11:30 a.m. CT
Location
Virtual/Zoom
Event Description
Fair housing issues can seem very abstract. This session will focus on critical fair housing litigation risks for your community’s operations including marketing strategies, transferring to higher levels of care, and discharge or eviction actions. During the education, current fair housing laws will be reviewed along with examples of recent cases. Additionally, presenters will demonstrate examples of the issues presented based upon real life situations that providers face every day.
Objectives
- Identify what types of inquiries are allowable and prohibited under the Fair Housing Act.
- Audit marketing materials and practices to determine possible liability concerns with the Fair Housing Act.
- Strategize how to train marketing staff on presenting community information in a consistent manner in compliance with the Fair Housing Act.
Speaker
Matt Murer, Polsinelli
Matthew Murer is the Department Chair for the firm's national health care practice. Matt’s personal practice is devoted to counseling long term care, assisted living and senior housing providers, hospitals, blood banks and clinical laboratories. Matt has worked with hundreds of providers in resolving licensing and certification issues, including providing regulatory support for portfolio transactions, especially those with complex change of ownership issues. He has extensive experience dealing with survey issues including immediate jeopardy and life safety code issues. He also has experience with reimbursement issues and fraud and abuse issues, including OIG/DOJ investigations.
Matt was involved in drafting Illinois’ Assisted Living and Shared Housing Establishment Act, and he was awarded AARP’s Partnership in Excellence award for his work on the legislation. Matt has served on the state’s Assisted Living and Shared Housing Advisory Committee and the state’s Assisted Living and Shared Housing Quality of Life Committee for over seven years. He speaks regularly on issues that are important to the long-term care and senior housing industries.
Continuing Education Information
Nursing Home Administrators: 1 contact hour is intended to meet the criteria established by the Iowa Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators for participants who attend this event in its entirety. Partial credit for this event will not be granted. To receive contact hours or a certificate of attendance, you must attend the entire event. Retain your certificate for four years.
For other long-term support and service provider professionals not listed above: Most licensure boards, credentialing agencies and professional organizations have processes that allow individuals to earn a certain number of CEUs for non-preapproved programs and/or to accommodate self-submission for approval of continuing education hours after the event takes place with proper documentation from the program sponsors. It is up to the discretion of the licensee to choose relevant sessions and self-report. Generic certificates of attendance will be provided.
Registration & Other Information
LeadingAge Iowa Member FREE
Prospective Member $99
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What’s Included
Registration fee includes digital handout, one connection to the live webinar and instructions for receiving CE credit/ attendance certificate. A recording of this webinar is included in the registration fee (no CE credit/attendance certificate will be awarded when viewing the recording).
Cancellation/Refund Policy
There will be no refunds approved for this webinar. Registered attendees who miss the live webinar can request the recording following the webinar.
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