Brookdale sees 10 months of occupancy growth, sets labor, occupancy goals for 2022
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Lois A. Bowers
Feb 16, 2022
Entering 2022 having experienced 10 months of sequential weighted average occupancy growth, Brentwood, TN-based Brookdale Senior Living has identified strategies to improve occupancy further as well as...
Retiring Jewish HomeLife CEO talks about the importance of succession planning, diversification and vaccine...
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Lois A. Bowers
Feb 04, 2022
Harley Tabak (Photo courtesy of Jewish HomeLife) Harley Tabak will retire at the end of the year after two decades at the helm of Jewish HomeLife in Atlanta. In April, he’ll transition to the role of...
OSHA to withdraw COVID-19 vaccine mandate
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 25, 2022
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is withdrawing the COVID-19 vaccination-and-testing emergency temporary standard it originally announced in November, the Labor Department agency said...
OSHA civil penalties now top $145,000 for ‘willful or repeated’ violations
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 20, 2022
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has increased the maximum penalty for “willful or repeated” violations to $145,027 per violation from $136,532 per violation, the Department of Labor...
Assisted living CEOs see 4.12 percent salary increase
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 19, 2022
Across the country, average salaries for assisted living community presidents/CEOs increased 4.12% over the past year, according to “2021-2022 Assisted Living Salary & Benefits Report,” published by...
Be ready as OSHA vows to ‘hold businesses accountable’ after Supreme Court halts COVID vaccine mandate
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 18, 2022
Breathing a sigh of relief after Thursday’s Supreme Court stay of a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large employers? Not so fast, legal experts say.
States don’t wait as fate of federal COVID vaccine mandates remains uncertain
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Lois A. Bowers
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 10, 2022
As employers wait to see whether the Supreme Court will issue stays against federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
As pandemic continues, solving labor challenges becomes even more urgent, leaders say
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 04, 2022
COVID-19 and the labor issues it exacerbates will be a primary focus of senior living providers for much or all of 2022, with recovery extending into 2023 and beyond, industry leaders tell McKnight’s...
OSHA withdraws part of COVID-19 healthcare emergency temporary standard but will ‘vigorously enforce’...
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Lois A. Bowers
Dec 28, 2021
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has withdrawn the “non-recordkeeping” portions of the healthcare emergency temporary standard that it had announced in June,...