Continuing care retirement / life plan community occupancy continues to grow, according to a new report from specialty investment bank Ziegler.
Kansas providers may face fee hike after audit reveals many wrongly paid cut-rate assessments
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 05, 2024
Continuing care retirement communities and nursing homes in Kansas could face additional scrutiny — and in some cases, higher fees — after a recent audit from the Kansas Medicaid inspector general’s...
Inflation, staffing pose pressures for not-for-profit life plan communities: Fitch Ratings
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 29, 2022
The not-for-profit continuing care / life plan communities sector has “broadly recovered” from pandemic stressors, but challenges lie ahead. That’s according to a new report from Fitch Ratings.
‘No fluke’: life plan community residents report higher levels of wellness than other older adults
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 28, 2023
Five years ago, Mather Institute set out to better understand the health and wellness effects of residing in a life plan community. The organization found that residents reported higher levels of wellness...
CCRC ratings unlikely to be affected by SNF staffing mandates: Fitch
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 21, 2023
The minimum staffing rule that most nursing homes will be required to meet within the next three years will add to staffing pressures at continuing care retirement / life plan communities, but it will...
CCRC residents ‘significantly safer’ from COVID deaths than older adults not living in congregate...
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 02, 2023
SAN DIEGO—Residents of continuing care retirement communities were “significantly safer” from dying from COVID-19 than were older adults living in noncongregate residential settings in the greater...
CCRC occupancy performance holds lessons for success: NIC
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 24, 2023
The ability of continuing care retirement communities to outperform other care settings and maintain consistently high occupancy rates throughout the COVID-19 pandemic offers lessons for the rest of the...
CCRCs continue to report higher occupancy than other senior living segments: Ziegler
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 29, 2023
Continuing care retirement / life plan communities continued to outpace non-CCRCs in senior living occupancy in the third quarter, with the independent living and assisted living segments within CCRCs...
A variety of models can help CCRC operators meet residents’ increasing healthcare needs
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 16, 2024
Older adults are moving into senior living communities with more chronic conditions and healthcare needs than ever before, presenting challenges — as well as opportunities — for continuing care retirement...
SNFs, CCRCs ‘off the pace’ for recruiting, retaining workers: Fitch
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 16, 2024
Skilled nursing facilities and continuing care retirement / life plan communities “are still well off the pace needed to reach a full post-pandemic recovery” in terms of their workforces, according...