Benchmark campaign aims to dispel senior living misconceptions
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 12, 2022
Waltham, MA-based Benchmark Senior Living has launched a new marketing campaign to try to educate consumers about senior living by helping them “unlearn” everything they think they know.
UPDATED: Diversified Healthcare Trust announces ‘event of default’ on $450 million credit facility
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 29, 2023
Diversified Healthcare Trust announced Thursday morning that a “non-monetary event of default” had occurred under its $450 million credit facility.
People in the news, July 28
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 28, 2020
Appointments and promotions at Anthem Memory Care, Bank Leumi USA, Cadence Living, Erdman, FaverGray, Heartis Yardley Senior Living, Inspir Carnegie Hill, Ryan Companies, Stonebridge at Montgomery, United...
Workforce training expenses would be covered by college funding program under bipartisan legislation
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 19, 2023
Bipartisan legislation expanding the use of 529 savings accounts to cover workforce training and credentialing program expenses is gaining support from the senior living industry.
The Freedom to Invest...
Pandemic, debt market downturn force financial restructuring of Enlivant joint venture
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 04, 2023
The negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and a downturn in the debt market has left a joint venture company operated by senior living provider Enlivant negotiating with its lenders on a finance restructuring.
State-level policies make difference to direct care workforce: PHI report
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 13, 2022
State-level policies targeting direct care workers made a difference during the pandemic — over and above federal support provided to long-term care providers. But long-term transformation is necessary...
COVID testing program uses artificial intelligence to maximize limited resources in senior living
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 12, 2021
A somewhat rare use of artificial intelligence in senior living is helping an operator maximize limited resources by predicting the severity of COVID-19 symptoms in residents to determine who should be...
Relief payment formula ‘a slap in the face’ to assisted living, industry leaders say
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 16, 2021
Calling the federal government’s methodology for determining COVID-19 relief payments “unconscionable,” one senior living association said it amounts to “a slap in the face” to caregivers.
California fire forces senior living community evacuations
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 09, 2018
Residents and staff of senior living communities in Paradise, CA, were evacuated Thursday as a wildfire swept through the northern part of the state. At least one resident remained missing, however.
Low wages, part-time work remain barriers to direct care workforce pipeline
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 13, 2023
Not much has changed in a year for the direct care workforce, according to a new PHI research report, released Tuesday