Anthem becomes first stand-alone memory care operator to achieve WELL Health-Safety Rating
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 19, 2022
Lake Oswego, OR-based Anthem Memory Care has become the first stand-alone memory care provider to achieve recognition at all of its communities for the company’s commitment to promoting a safer and healthier...
Provider, university partner to help community, environment
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 18, 2022
After incorporating sustainability measures into its new buildings, Retirement Unlimited Inc. looked at its existing buildings to determine what procedures it could implement across the board to make a...
Proposal would allow CNAs to train in assisted living communities
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 09, 2023
Regulatory changes proposed by the Virginia Board of Nursing are aimed at removing barriers to training and improving the hiring process for certified nurse aides in the commonwealth. If approved, CNAs...
Assisted living community, management groups sued over employee shot to death by resident
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 08, 2023
The widow of an assisted living maintenance worker who allegedly was shot and killed in 2021 by a resident has filed two lawsuits, alleging that the community allowed the accused shooter to have a weapon...
Bake sale-supported nursing home turns to assisted living to survive
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Josh Henreckson
Apr 05, 2024
A Rhode Island nursing home that had turned to a grassroots funding campaign that included a resident-run bake sale to avoid closure is reworking one of its floors into a memory-care focused assisted...
Coalition to promote ‘common sense solutions’ in senior living and care
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 26, 2024
Three Arizona senior living and care advocacy organizations are partnering to promote “common sense solutions” for long-term care and counter negative perceptions of providers that appear in the lay...
Lawmakers turn up heat on CMS to expand access to Alzheimer’s treatments
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 28, 2023
Medicare needs to reconsider its national coverage decision on FDA-approved Alzheimer’s drug treatments, bipartisan members of the House told Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita...
Senior living lending weakened by rate pressures, market fears
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 10, 2023
The issuance of new permanent debt for senior living hit a new low during the second quarter, and loan volume for senior living decreased 8% from the first quarter, according to a NIC lending trends report...
What’s next after NIC for Brian Jurutka
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 14, 2023
Brian Jurutka, former president and CEO of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care, has started a new chapter in his career, and it’s one that will enable him to continue to use data...
Philip Esformes pleads guilty to healthcare fraud, sentenced to time served
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 22, 2024
Former assisted living community and nursing home owner Philip Esformes pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud on Thursday and received a sentence of time served, ending a case the federal government at one...