Selling in senior living requires conveying its value proposition, experts say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 06, 2024
Selling senior living is about conveying its unique value proposition through compelling and authentic messaging that resonates with prospective residents and their families, according to a panel of sales...
Arrow Senior Living plans Joint Commission assisted living accreditation for entire portfolio
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 27, 2022
Vitalia North Olmsted has become the second stand-alone assisted living community in the United States — and the first in Ohio — to receive accreditation by The Joint Commission. The announcement comes...
First senior living community earns Joint Commission assisted living memory care certification
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 29, 2023
A Missouri senior living community is the first such community to receive the Joint Commission’s assisted living memory care certification.
Train employees for ‘acuity creep’ or face potential risk
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 03, 2023
DENVER—The level of needs of older adults moving into assisted living communities today is similar to that of seniors who would move into nursing homes in the past, and if operators and providers don’t...
Move-ins decline with slowdown in lead conversions, sales: NIC
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 15, 2023
Slowdowns in lead conversions or sales were the most common reasons cited for a recent decline in the pace of move-ins in senior living among respondents to a National Investment Center for Seniors Housing...
Bill aims to prevent Medicaid Access Rule implementation
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 29, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would be prohibited from implementing the Medicaid Access Rule under a bill introduced last week in the House of Representatives.
Industry’s diversity, inclusion efforts starting from a place of strength: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 10, 2022
The senior living industry has some work to do to advance diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, or DEIB, but the industry is in an enviable position to draw from its people-focused mission, according...
New partnership aims to ‘transform’ senior living through real estate, care, tech
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 28, 2023
A Brentwood, TN, assisted living and memory care community is the launch point for a new partnership that aims to create an innovation center for technology and data solutions for the senior living industry...
Senior living nurse job satisfaction heavily influenced by culture, leadership: MIT report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 19, 2023
Job dissatisfaction and burnout among nurses is fueled by “out of touch” managers and “disconnected” senior executive leadership, according to a new report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Proposed nursing home staffing mandate would hurt senior living providers ‘fishing from the same...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 07, 2023
CHICAGO — Even though the staffing mandate proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services directly would apply only to nursing homes, senior living providers as well as providers across the...