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CMS issues reg requiring COVID-19 vaccination for long-term care workers
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 04, 2021
Long-term care and other healthcare facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs must develop COVID-19 vaccination policies for their workers by Dec. 5, and all eligible workers must...
Brookdale mulls stock repurchase
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 09, 2016
Brookdale Senior Living is considering a stock buy-back program because the board and management are “extremely frustrated with where our share price is,” company CEO Andy Smith told investors...
Affordable housing advocates ‘thrilled’ with omnibus provisions
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 01, 2017
An omnibus spending act released Monday by lawmakers “sends a clear message that keeping HUD-assisted homes online is as much as a priority for Congress as it is for the 1.7 million older adult households...
Employees will benefit from bike-sharing program, Atria hopes
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 05, 2017
Atria Senior Living is one of 10 companies sponsoring a new bicycle-sharing program in its headquarters city of Louisville, KY, and the city’s mayor says that the program will play an important role...
Blake Management Group will expand outside of Southeast under joint venture
Oct 05, 2018
Blake Management Group expects to add 10 resort-style senior living communities to its portfolio over the next five years through a new joint venture with LifeCare Properties.
Granger Cobb Institute receives $100,000 pledge
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 05, 2019
Education programs at the Granger Cobb Institute for Senior Living at Washington State University will benefit from a $100,000 donation that Bend, OR-based real estate marketing optimization company G5...
Reducing racial disparities could ease pressure on long-term care: study
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 09, 2016
Pressures on the long-term care delivery system caused by the aging of the population could be offset in part by determining how to reduce disability-related racial disparities that cause blacks to depend...
Healthcare, real estate and the Stanley Cup
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 14, 2019
Debra A. Cafaro, chairman and CEO of real estate investment trust Ventas Inc. recently spent a few minutes answering questions for McKnight’s Senior Living about the middle market, sustainability and...
Senior living needs ‘substantial and immediate financial relief’ from COVID-19, leaders tell federal...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 21, 2020
Senior living operators require “substantial and immediate financial relief” from expenses related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the leaders of four major associations representing operators of independent...