College program uses field experience at providers to help train social workers to serve older adults
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 21, 2023
A Scholars in Aging program at the University of Connecticut is training the current and next generation of social workers to address the needs of older adults. The Constitution State has the sixth largest...
Milken Institute to spearhead Aging Innovation Collaborative with $3 million from NIC
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 07, 2023
The Santa Monica, CA-based Milken Institute has received a $3 million grant from the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care to establish the Aging Innovation Collaborative within Milken’s...
$800,000 in scholarships to benefit students in accelerated BSN program
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 01, 2024
The state of Florida is providing funds for a scholarship program that will make 40 new scholarships available to nursing students at the University of Florida
Green and Resilient Retrofit Program focus of HUD webinar today
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 23, 2023
Those who want to learn more about funding coming online for the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Green and Resilient Retrofit Program can attend a webinar today at 2 p.m. ET.
$500,000 in EPA funds will clean up site of future assisted living complex
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 21, 2021
Niagara County, NY, will use $500,000 in EPA funds to clean up a brownfield site where an assisted living complex will be built.
Legislators introduce bill to retain nurses in Ohio
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 03, 2023
Long-term care providers in Ohio appear to be left out of a newly introduced bill aimed at retaining nurses in the Buckeye State and alleviating some of the final burdens associated with earning a degree...
White House initiates $35M plan to create affordable housing by repurposing vacant commercial properties
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 30, 2023
The White House announced Friday a plan to turn vacant commercial properties into affordable housing. The multiagency plan would fund more than $35 million in below-market-rate loans meant to encourage...
COVID ‘long-haulers’ may qualify as disabled under federal law
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 28, 2021
Employers may need to grant accommodations to some people experiencing long-term effects of COVID-19, who may qualify as disabled, according to new guidance issued jointly Monday by the Department of Health...
$10 billion bipartisan bill aims to address financial losses, workforce shortages in assisted living
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 31, 2022
Assisted living providers would receive $10 billion in funding to help them recover from pandemic-related financial and workforce challenges if a bipartisan bill introduced Thursday by U.S. Reps. Lori...
American Healthcare REIT may acquire Trilogy Health Services parent
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 09, 2023
American Healthcare REIT announced Tuesday that it has entered into a purchase agreement with NorthStar Healthcare Income that grants AHR the option to buy all of the minority membership interest held...