Speakers announced for McKnight’s Senior Living Online Expo
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 07, 2019
Workforce, technology and behavioral health will be the three tracks of the third annual McKnight’s Senior Living Online Expo, set for Thursday, June 20. Attendees can earn up to three continuing education...
Operators’ liability claim costs expected to increase 6% in 2019: report
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 22, 2018
General and professional liability claims costs for long-term care operators are projected to increase by 6% in 2019, according to the findings of an analysis recently released by professional services...
Brookdale unveils $4 million website redesign
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 06, 2016
Brookdale Senior Living has spent $4 million to date redesigning its website after analyzing millions of visits to its former site, interviewing consumers and reviewing other types of websites with which...
Avamere spins off senior living properties to form Arete Living
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 06, 2022
Wilsonville, OR-based Avamere Living Community-Based Care, previously with Avamere Health Services, is spinning off independent living, assisted living and memory care communities to a new company called...
Obama-era ‘joint employer’ definition back in effect
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Lois A. Bowers
Feb 27, 2018
The definition of “joint employer” is reverting to one established during the Obama administration after the National Labor Relations Board announced Monday that one of its members had a potential...
10 senior living design trends for 2020
Dec 20, 2019
Here are the 10 top senior living design trends for 2020, as forecast by Austin, TX-based StudioSIX5.
$25 million expansion adds 5 states and territories to Money Follows the Person program for HCBS
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 22, 2022
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will award up to $5 million each to Illinois, Kansas and New Hampshire, as well as for American Samoa...
$35 million ‘whistleblower’ lawsuit dropped against Brookdale Senior Living
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 07, 2019
A former utilization review nurse at Brookdale Senior Living who claimed the country’s largest senior living company fraudulently billed the Medicare program for $35 million dropped her lawsuit on Monday.
Sexual freedom often limited in assisted living, study finds
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 08, 2016
A dearth of policies related to sexual intimacy and an abundance of caution among administrators and staff members add up to limited sexual freedom for assisted living residents, according to new research.
Feb. 18 hearing set to discuss national senior living standards
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 16, 2020
The American National Standards Institute has set a hearing date of Feb. 18 for its Executive Standards Council to hear appeals to the organization’s approval of Argentum’s application to be an accredited...