Long-term care financing success requires federal program, coverage across continuum: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 08, 2022
A new federal benefit that would include taxpayer subsidies and cover the continuum of long-term care services, including residential care and home- and community-based services, would address some of...
Grammy winner eyes opening assisted living communities, employing college graduates
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 17, 2021
A 26-year-old Grammy winner said she intends to stay true to her word and open an assisted living community in her hometown of Houston, as well as provide employment opportunities to recent college graduates.
Lawsuit claims operator failed to protect cognitively impaired resident from sexual assault
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 10, 2021
A lawsuit filed by “Jane Doe” through her guardian Carol Smith names Assisted Living by Hillcrest LLC and West Bend Mutual Insurance as defendants for allegedly failing to protect Doe — a resident...
As COVID-19 vaccine mandate challenges play out, assisted living providers are stuck in ‘doughnut hole’...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 02, 2021
A federal COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate was hit with another lawsuit Monday, which challenged the government’s authority to issue such a mandate and called the mandate a “gross abuse” of government...
Disclosures, fire safety, internal systems top challenges as assisted living providers implement new...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 22, 2021
Disclosures, fire safety requirements and internal systems requirements are the main challenges confronting Minnesota assisted living providers as they continue to work through implementing new industry...
Assisted living providers could be federal audit targets over use of Provider Relief Fund dollars
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 13, 2021
Assisted living providers have benefited from CARES Act Provider Relief Fund monies over the past year to help them with pandemic-related expenses, but the federal government is “salivating” over the...
Latest senior living stats reason to be ‘cautiously optimistic’ about comeback from pandemic
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 08, 2021
The latest NIC MAP quarterly data, released Thursday, provide reasons to be “cautiously optimistic” about the senior living industry’s comeback from the pandemic, National Investment Center for Seniors...
61 percent of assisted living operators say workforce issues might force them to close
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 23, 2021
Sixty-one percent of assisted living operators responding to a recent survey by the American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living said they fear that workforce issues will force...
Argentum calls for continued industry self-regulation as association ramps up advocacy efforts
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 14, 2021
PHOENIX—Argentum has spent the past 18 months elevating several priorities, with senior living industry advocacy rising to the top as a critical need during the pandemic amid changing federal and state...
Pandemic stressors, challenges unique to assisted living create leadership opportunities
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 25, 2021
We’re not out of the woods yet. Jeff Gorter, vice president of clinical crisis response at Byron Center, MI-based R3 Continuum, kicked off a webinar on Tuesday for the American Assisted Living Nurses...