MA plan partners with home healthcare agency, underscoring care shift
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 13, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has helped forge an alliance between a Medicare Advantage company and a provider of post-acute-home-based care (PAHC). Miramar, FL-based onehome is partnering with Waltham, MA-based...
Residents in for-profit nursing homes face higher COVID-19 risk, study finds
By
Amy Novotney
Jun 12, 2020
A preliminary analysis of data released Wednesday on the incidence of COVID-19 cases in nursing homes finds more cases per capita in for-profit facilities compared with nonprofit or public homes.
Industry mourns senior housing and care veteran Tony Mullen, NIC co-founder
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 14, 2018
Senior living industry leaders are remembering Anthony James “Tony” Mullen as a trailblazing, passionate advocate of seniors housing and care as well as a good friend. Mullen died Saturday...
3 ways COVID-19 will change senior living forever
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 04, 2020
One senior living expert recently shared with me three ways senior living surely will change, and another way it will change at least temporarily, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
$16 million, 5-year study will test artificial intelligence in senior living
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 29, 2017
IBM and the University of California San Diego on Thursday announced a $16 million, five-year collaboration that will test how artificial intelligence, or AI, can be used to help detect mild cognitive...
Senior living operators, ready for some small ball?
By
John O'Connor
May 23, 2019
A landmark report is calling on senior living operators to consider reducing prices.
Rising operating expenses surpass staffing as top provider concern: NIC
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 26, 2022
Rising operating expenses are now the top-cited challenge for long-term care providers, according to the latest Executive Survey Insights report, released Thursday by the National Investment Center for...
McKnight’s Senior Living Market Leaders Podcast with Alex Cohen of Liberty SBF
Nov 10, 2021
[Partner content] Alex Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Liberty SBF, provides a recap of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Fall Conference and discusses the state of the senior living...
Speakers predict design, service, financing trends in senior living
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 09, 2016
Senior living, real estate management and banking professionals shared their thoughts on design, service and financing trends during a NIC 2016 Spring Investment Forum session.
Bivalent mRNA-1273.214 elicits better response against omicron
Sep 27, 2022
A booster dose of mRNA-1273.214 elicits more neutralizing antibodies against omicron compared with mRNA-1273, the original Moderna vaccine, with no new safety concerns.
