Jayne Sallerson, chief operating officer and partner at Naperville, IL-based Charter Senior Living, recently spoke with McKnight’s Senior Living about what it’s like to add a community to a management...
Is loneliness at work the next pandemic?
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 26, 2023
A new study reveals that loneliness can be an issue for employees, even as the COVID-19 pandemic recedes. In fact, one group is calling loneliness “the next pandemic” in the workplace. But fortunately,...
New online resource matches job-seekers with senior living positions, lets operators post openings
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 08, 2020
Argentum and the American Seniors Housing Association have announced a new resource to help workers who have been displaced due to the fallout from COVID-19 find a new employment opportunity in senior...
New task force to develop guidance for reopening senior living and care communities
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Lois A. Bowers
May 11, 2020
Representatives of more than 140 senior housing and care operators and members of four associations advocating for U.S. providers are joining forces with other groups in a new effort to provide guidance...
COVID relief package passes Senate without amendment to help senior living, but ‘forward progress’...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 08, 2021
An attempt to include direct aid to senior living operators in the American Rescue Plan Act failed in the Senate on Saturday, but the effort represents “forward progress” as the industry continues...
New Senior portfolio sees low COVID case count, positive trends for occupancy, move-ins
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 02, 2021
As its acquisition by Ventas looms, expected to close before the end of the year, New Senior Investment Group’s portfolio is experiencing low COVID-19 case counts and upward-trending occupancy.
LTC Properties defers or abates $2 million in rent as operators feel ‘some stress’
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Lois A. Bowers
May 02, 2022
Long-term care operators felt “some stress” in the first quarter as they continued to confront labor pressures and inflation, LTC Properties Chairman and CEO Wendy Simpson said Friday during the Westlake...
ACHCA joins in effort to ‘strongly urge’ COVID-19 vaccination in long-term care
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 03, 2021
The American College of Health Care Administrators said late Tuesday that it is joining several other long-term care and healthcare-related groups in an effort to “strongly urge the vaccination of all...
Conflicting information imperils Provider Relief Fund application process as deadline looms: ASHA
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 03, 2020
As Friday’s deadline to apply for Phase 3 monies from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Provider Relief Fund approaches, the American Seniors Housing Association is seeking...