Capital Senior Living reiterates uncertainty about future to SEC
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 11, 2020
Capital Senior Living reiterated its belief that conditions related to COVID-19 “raise substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern” in a document filed Monday with...
New research could help attract residents, but a to-do list remains
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 07, 2021
Senior living operators received some good news last week with the publication of the results of a long-awaited study of COVID mortality rates in the United States in residential senior housing and care...
Sabra ‘completely committed’ to senior living, ‘actively reviewing’ $2 billion in deals
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 06, 2021
Sabra Health Care REIT President and CEO Rick Matros said Thursday that the real estate investment trust remains “completely committed to continuing to grow in senior housing,” despite its decision,...
Ventas looks to COVID-19 testing program to accelerate move-ins, announces new Holiday management agreement
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Lois A. Bowers
May 11, 2020
Similar to other senior living operators and real estate investment trusts with senior housing portfolios, Ventas is reporting some pretty grim numbers for the first quarter and the part of the second...
Effects of Supreme Court ruling on OSHA mandate linger
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 24, 2022
Regardless of how anyone personally feels about the vaccination-and-testing emergency temporary standard recently stayed by the U.S. Supreme Court, its effects, and the effects of the High Court ruling,...
Pandemic has distinct effects for independent living and middle-market senior living operators, REITs...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Lois A. Bowers
May 11, 2020
Operators of independent living communities and operators of senior living communities targeting middle-income individuals have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic in ways that differ from other senior living...
COVID caregivers, don’t forget to take care of yourselves
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 29, 2020
Results of a new survey bring potentially troubling news for those in senior living employees and the companies for which they work: Personal exposure to the coronavirus is linked with poor mental health....
Big senior living stories of 2021
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Lois A. Bowers
Dec 22, 2021
2021 began with the hope that the new COVID-19 vaccine being rolled out to assisted living communities and nursing homes would help control a pandemic that had caused so much illness, death, loneliness,...
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...
Senior housing occupancy falls 1.1 percent in April, and May could see ‘pretty significant impact,’...
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Lois A. Bowers
May 20, 2020
Occupancy in senior housing fell 1.1% to 88.7% in April, according to data released Tuesday by the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care. The rate was 1% lower than the prior year, NIC...