Brookdale announces $400 million sale of majority stake in home health, hospice, therapy business to...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 24, 2021
Brookdale Senior Living has agreed to sell its majority stake in Brookdale Health Care Services — provider of home health, hospice and therapy services — to HCA Healthcare, the country’s largest...
People in the news, May 25
By
Caroline Szachnowski
May 25, 2021
Appointments and promotions at Aegis Living, AG Architecture, Belmont Village Senior Living, Edgewood Healthcare, Essex Communities, Front Porch Communities, Heritage, Legend Senior Living, Lifespace Communities,...
Brookdale Senior Living announces board nominations, passes on activist shareholder picks
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 29, 2019
Brentwood, TN-based Brookdale Senior Living announced Wednesday the two nominees that members of its Board of Directors unanimously have proposed to succeed two board members who are stepping down. In...
Nominee for CMS administrator would bring ‘solid experience,’ home care leader says
By
Joe Jancsurak
Feb 23, 2021
Home care association leaders welcomed President Biden’s recent choice of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure as the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
5 states with high liability costs
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 19, 2015
A new report details the states where costs to settle, defend or litigate liability claims are the highest and lowest, as well as the states where claims frequency is increasing.
People in the news, Nov. 10
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 10, 2020
Appointments, promotions and news at The Architectural Team, Broadview – Senior Living at Purchase College, Caspar.AI, Century Park Associates, Erickson Living, Integral Senior Living, Jefferson’s...
Pennsylvania senior living community defies state guidance to continue restrictions
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 09, 2020
A Pennsylvania senior living community is defying the state’s continued visitation restriction recommendations to allow family members to once again visit residents.
Monitoring Provider Relief Fund will provide lessons, inform future policymaking: report
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 02, 2022
Given the “controversy” surrounding the $178 billion distributed through the COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund, monitoring the impact of the fund will provide valuable lessons for pandemic recovery and...
Memory care worker pleads guilty to abuse after co-worker records her interactions with resident
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 11, 2017
A caregiver at a Minnesota assisted living community pleaded guilty to abuse of a vulnerable adult last week after a co-worker recorded her on a cellphone taunting, restraining and swearing at a resident...
Deborah Birx: Long-term care must prepare for, protect against, prevent COVID-19
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 19, 2021
Providers must rally together to protect residents in senior living communities and nursing homes from COVID-19, former White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Deborah Birx, M.D., said Wednesday.