Vaccine priority a ‘credit positive’ for senior living and care sector: Fitch
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Amy Novotney
Dec 04, 2020
Tuesday’s recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that long-term care residents and staff receive priority for COVID-19 vaccinations is a credit positive for the senior living...
Acquisitions more likely than new developments as operators emerge from pandemic: speakers
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Amy Novotney
Feb 03, 2021
More than 10 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, senior housing investors are more interested in prioritizing acquisitions above new developments as the uncertainty of the market continues. That’s according...
Town’s only nursing facility converting to ALF, as national study finds ‘dangerously low’ occupancy...
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Amy Novotney
Dec 03, 2020
Amid deteriorating finances that don’t allow for much-needed building infrastructure updates, the only skilled nursing facility in the town of Norton, MA, will be closing by early next year and will...
Senior living inquiries, move-ins continue to improve from pandemic lows: report
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Amy Novotney
Nov 25, 2020
Move-in averages within senior housing have increased just over 44% from April, according to a report released Monday by Denver-based Enquire.
Approximately 95% of Green House homes have reported zero cases COVID-19 among residents or staff: study
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Amy Novotney
Aug 03, 2020
Much attention has been given of late to the properties or characteristics that have helped long-term care facilities stave off outbreaks of COVID-19. A new study led by University of North Carolina researcher...
Supply of post-acute care facilities continued decline last year: MedPAC report
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Amy Novotney
Jul 21, 2020
The nation’s supply of inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities continued to decline in 2019, contracting by 1.5%, 3.9% and 0.8%, respectively. That’s...
Nation’s oldest households are among those most cost-burdened by housing: report
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Amy Novotney
Nov 23, 2020
Of the nation’s 33 million older adult households, about 15%, or more than five million, are severely cost burdened, spending more than half of their income for housing. That’s according to data...
With COVID-19 cases down to just two per day in recent weeks within a portfolio serving 40,000 residents, and a 100% resident vaccination rate expected by the end of the month, Ventas Chairman and CEO...
SRZ Management acquires Missouri SNF from National Healthcare Corp., plans to preserve the property
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Amy Novotney
Nov 25, 2020
St. Louis-based skilled nursing and rehab operator SRZ Management announced this week that it has acquired a 282-bed skilled nursing facility from Nashville, TN-based National Healthcare Corp.
Home sharing may be gaining steam as an affordable alternative to formal seniors housing
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Amy Novotney
Sep 23, 2020
It was the high cost of housing in Colorado Springs that originally brought roommates Kimberly Bolding, Ardene Hagadorn and Louis John Vastine together, but it’s the medical and financial support...