House Financial Services Committee considers draft bill that would provide $2.5 billion to support housing...
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Amy Novotney
Apr 16, 2021
The House Financial Services Committee considered a draft bill Wednesday that would provide $2.5 billion for the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly program. The funding also would be able to...
Industry must capitalize on ‘historic moment’ of change for skilled nursing: expert
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Amy Novotney
Apr 14, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the country’s long-term care system, particularly in skilled nursing facilities, as “deeply flawed, chronically underfunded and in need of reform,” according to...
FY 2022 SNF reimbursement proposal could weaken rent coverage for skilled nursing REITS: Mizuho
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Amy Novotney
Apr 14, 2021
Last week, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its 2022 fiscal year reimbursement proposal for skilled nursing facilities that includes a 1.3% boost to Medicare payments. The overall $444...
California lawmaker working to garner support for additional funding of Section 202 Housing for the Elderly...
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Amy Novotney
Apr 12, 2021
Last week, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), chairwoman of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, began circulating a sign-on letter to her House colleagues in support of strong rental assistance funding...
The future of nursing homes lies in a community hub model: expert
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Amy Novotney
Apr 09, 2021
To remain financially viable in a post-COVID world, nursing homes need to think more broadly and consider ways that they can serve as a hub for other aging services. That’s the message presented to the...
Public-private collaboration key to securing long-term care financing for middle-income Americans
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Amy Novotney
Apr 09, 2021
Recent studies have found that more than half of middle-income seniors will not be able to afford the care they need, and 15% of baby boomers will incur more than $250,000 in long-term care costs. If anything,...
New York nursing homes must use at least 70% of revenue for direct care under new budget
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Amy Novotney
Apr 08, 2021
For-profit New York nursing homes will have to spend more of their revenue on staffing and keep less in profits under a provision in the state budget approved Tuesday. Agreement on the $212 billion state...
Welltower, Sabra see meaningful improvement in March occupancy
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Amy Novotney
Apr 07, 2021
Following a decline in occupancy in early March, real estate investment trust Welltower saw spot occupancy increase in recent weeks, with an approximate gain of 30 basis points (0.3%) since March 12. That’s...
SNF occupancy hits record low again in January: NIC report
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Amy Novotney
Apr 06, 2021
Occupancy continued to be challenged as the skilled nursing industry navigated the first months of 2021, according to the latest monthly skilled nursing data report from the National Investment Center...
COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an estimated 4M workers prematurely retiring: analysis
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Amy Novotney
Mar 31, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an estimated 4 million workers prematurely retiring, according to an economic report released Tuesday by the nonprofit Alliance for Lifetime Income.