CareTrust REIT leads real estate investment trusts in female board membership
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 15, 2022
Sixty percent of CareTrust REIT’s board members are women, making it the leader in this regard among publicly traded real estate investment trusts, according to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Boosting employee morale helps recruitment, retention efforts, history shows
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 11, 2022
Long-term care providers have been faced with staggering staffing challenges since the onset of the pandemic in the United States in early 2020, but history demonstrates that this isn’t the first time...
Operators welcome delays in enforcing New York’s nursing home staffing requirements
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 22, 2022
Some unions and advocates for older adults are concerned that minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes passed last May by New York state lawmakers have not taken effect.
Florida operator pitches short-term stays for older adults on vacation
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 01, 2022
Watercrest Buena Vista Senior Living in The Villages, Vero Beach, FL, is opening its doors to northern snowbirds — and everyone else — to come for a temporary stay, or what the community calls a “play-cation.”...
Brokerage employees working with senior living facilities accused of setting up captives, skimming
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 27, 2022
An Oregon insurance brokerage firm that serves senior living facilities is suing some former employees for allegedly moving existing partners’ insurance policies into captives for clients and then skimming...
Rate surge seen as threat to middle market enthusiasm
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 27, 2022
Many senior living and care providers across the country have raised their rates this year, as inflation continues to drive expenses for staples such as food, supplies and energy.
Survey: Only 10 percent of Americans have long-term care coverage
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 21, 2022
Seventy percent of Americans over the age of 65 likely will need long-term care, yet only 10% of them are carrying long-term care coverage, according to the results of a recent survey by the Arctos Foundation...
Housing costs a burden long-term care workers, residents: experts
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 15, 2021
A chasm exists between personal care aides’ and nursing assistants’ earned wage and their housing wage, and the shortage of affordable housing for older adults is even worse, according to a new report...
Canceling OSHA healthcare standard puts workers in ‘grave danger,’ unions tell court
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 01, 2022
The federal government has placed healthcare workers in “grave danger” by withdrawing portions of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s COVID-19 healthcare emergency temporary standard,...
Proposed constitutional amendment in Ohio would set minimums for nursing home staffing, care
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 02, 2021
Skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities would see minimums set for staffing levels and daily direct care if a proposed constitutional amendment makes it to Ohio voters and...