Karen Peck, vice president, Clinical Services – East Division at Brookdale Senior Living in Brentwood, TN, is a Hall of Honor inductee in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
NHC completes acquisition of White Oak Senior Living’s 15-property portfolio
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 08, 2024
National HealthCare Corp. has completed its acquisition of Spartanburg, SC-based White Oak Senior Living’s 15-property portfolio of continuing care retirement communities and nursing homes in North Carolina...
National Health Investors, Pennant Group share second-quarter earnings results
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 08, 2024
National Health Investors and The Pennant Group reported second-quarter earnings results on Wednesday earnings calls.
Joint venture brings new I-SNP to PA nursing home residents
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 08, 2024
A new joint venture has created American Health Advantage of Pennsylvania, an institutional special needs plan, or I-SNP, to serve Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries who live in nursing homes in 12 counties...
Business briefs, Aug. 8
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 08, 2024
Provider seeks dismissal of class-action suit over alleged immigrant labor law violations … CCRC adopts Journeys memory care model … Connecticut launches grant program for home healthcare worker safety...
Actions & Transactions, Aug. 8
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 08, 2024
Navigator Homes breaks ground on $68M affordable senior housing, nursing care campus … Ziegler advises Comprehensive Care Capital on $6.375M acquisition financing for Pennsylvania senior living community…...
Dementia may occur less often, develop slower in Parkinson’s disease patients
Aug 07, 2024
The median time to dementia was 15 years in the Penn cohort; the estimated probability of dementia at year 10 was 9 to 15% in the PPMI cohort.
CDC presents characteristics of residential care community residents
Aug 07, 2024
75% needed assistance with bathing, 71% with walking and 62% with three or more activities of daily living.
Chronic and new-onset anxiety linked to all-cause dementia
Aug 07, 2024
Associations were seen for chronic and new-onset anxiety, but not for resolved anxiety, with all-cause dementia risk.
Urinary metal levels linked to increased risk for CVD, mortality
Aug 07, 2024
For the mixture of six urinary metals, the adjusted hazard ratio for the interquartile range increase was 1.29 and 1.66 for CVD and mortality.