Operators better prepared to manage next pandemic: LTC Properties CEO
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 02, 2020
The senior living and care industry has faced considerable challenges related to COVID-19, but operators now have better tools and a better understanding of how to manage in the pandemic, LTC Properties...
Breakthrough infection experience leads senior living provider to insist that ‘vaccinations are necessary’
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 12, 2021
Connecticut-based Masonicare was among the first senior living providers to announce a staff COVID-19 vaccine mandate back in December 2020, when vaccines first became available. So when a staff member...
‘Calm preparedness’ carries community through COVID-19 breakthrough infections
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 31, 2021
Kendal at Oberlin, a Northeast Ohio life plan community, went 16 months without a resident coronavirus case. Then a resident’s fever prompted a rapid test within the past month, which came back positive.
Bipartisan pandemic legislation includes $2 billion for testing, tracing in assisted living, other settings
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 10, 2020
The framework for a bipartisan $908 billion COVID-19 relief package, released Wednesday, includes measures directed at addressing the struggles of assisted living and other long-term care operators.
‘Right now’ is most challenging time for many senior living providers
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 30, 2021
Continued unemployment compensation, wage pressures, decreased occupancy and increased costs continue to create challenges for many senior living providers, according to speakers at an Argentum congressional...
Ventas riding senior housing recovery with occupancy, revenue growth
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 22, 2022
The senior living industry pandemic recovery is underway with accelerating demand, strong rate increases and rapidly improving clinical conditions, with expectations for occupancy and revenue growth going...
Senior living seeks additional relief in wake of passage of American Rescue Plan Act
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 11, 2021
Senior living industry leaders said Wednesday that they will continue to press the federal government for additional coronavirus relief — and urge owners and operators to do so, too — after the House...
64 percent of senior living communities saw no COVID-19-related deaths: NIC-funded study
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 03, 2021
A majority (64%) of senior living communities reported no COVID-19 deaths in 2020, according to an analysis of COVID-19 deaths across the long-term care residential continuum released today.
Providers victims of politics in ‘unfortunate’ repeal of COVID immunity protections, industry rep...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 12, 2021
Assisted living and other long-term care operators are the victims of politics via legislation signed last week by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that repeals blanket immunity protections for pandemic-related...
Brookdale ‘firmly on road to recovery’ after 8 consecutive months of occupancy growth, CEO says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 08, 2021
With eight consecutive months of occupancy growth, including the largest average occupancy increase in “at least the last six years” during the third quarter, Brookdale Senior Living is “firmly on...