Direct care workforce solutions hampered by data gaps, GAO says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 15, 2016
Policymakers will continue to be impeded in their ability to develop strategies to help ensure a sufficient number of qualified direct care workers unless the Department of Health and Human Services can...
Partnerships critical to serving middle-income older adults, NIC speakers say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 06, 2020
Panelists discussed how to cost-effectively deliver healthcare to middle-income older adults in senior housing on Thursday at the NIC Spring Conference.
HHS says new rule allows healthcare workers, organizations to honor religious and moral principles in...
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 03, 2019
Individual healthcare workers as well as healthcare organizations can decline to provide care that conflicts with their religious and moral beliefs or mission under a final rule issued Thursday by the...
Study: 80% of nurses don’t adhere to infection prevention precautions
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 24, 2016
More than 80% of ambulatory care nurses — the type of nurses who might visit a senior living community to provide care for residents — do not adhere to all of the standard precautions for infection...
Cutting LTSS funding would be ‘penny wise and pound foolish,’ Collins says
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 27, 2017
Federal budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration that affect the delivery of long-term services and supports “are really pennywise and pound foolish, because in the end they’re going...
‘Stay tuned’ as Welltower devises more affordable products for the middle market, CEO says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 06, 2019
Although Welltower has “curated” its seniors housing portfolio to focus on properties in “high barrier-to-entry markets,” the real estate investment trust is aware that middle-income individuals...
Promote flu vaccination among staff, residents, health officials say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 17, 2015
This year’s vaccine should be more effective than last year’s vaccine, health officials said at a Sept. 17 press conference, and senior living communities have an important role to play in...
Aegis Living sees personalized medicine as the future, CEO says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 28, 2020
Aegis Living CEO Dwayne Clark recently shared details of the company’s future plans related to health and wellness in an exclusive interview with McKnight’s Senior Living.
421,000 COVID tests headed to assisted living communities from the federal government
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 17, 2020
The federal government will send more than 421,000 rapid-results antigen COVID-19 tests to assisted living communities this week, Admiral Brett P. Giroir, M.D., assistant secretary for health at the U.S....
Senior living organization, nursing school collaboration ‘breaks new ground’
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 26, 2016
A new collaboration between a senior living organization and a nursing school, launched with a $1.2 million gift, aims to improve the health of older adults, educate students about the elderly, and conduct...