Senior living sees overall occupancy increase for 12th quarter in a row … $5M program puts CNAs at center of expanded geriatric care network …Morning Pointe of Hardin Valley earns deficiency-free state...
‘Right now’ is most challenging time for many senior living providers
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 30, 2021
Continued unemployment compensation, wage pressures, decreased occupancy and increased costs continue to create challenges for many senior living providers, according to speakers at an Argentum congressional...
64 percent of senior living communities saw no COVID-19-related deaths: NIC-funded study
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 03, 2021
A majority (64%) of senior living communities reported no COVID-19 deaths in 2020, according to an analysis of COVID-19 deaths across the long-term care residential continuum released today.
California restores assisted living death data to COVID-19 website after public outcry
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 23, 2020
California has restored the names of assisted living communities where COVID-19-related deaths have occurred to a state website shortly after resident advocates questioned the move and blamed the long-term...
Is it time to reimagine assisted living? These industry experts say yes
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 09, 2022
Assisted living must be reimagined as an affordable care option providing quality, person-centered care that melds social and medical models, according to industry experts.
Decline in resident frailty after move-in highlights senior living’s value proposition: study
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 27, 2023
Although frailty levels increase in the months leading up to a move into a senior living community, that vulnerability quickly levels off and continues to decline after move-in, according to research released...
Identifying highest-risk assisted living communities key to tackling next outbreak: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 22, 2024
The public health response to COVID-19 in assisted living communities in New York highlights the need to identify those communities at highest risk of infectious disease outbreaks to provide necessary...
Way to grow! NIC will focus on key issues
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 26, 2017
The National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care’s new CEO, Brian Jurutka, lays out the organization’s plans for the future in this exclusive interview.
‘Replace denial with proposal’ on long-term care, House committee told
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Lois A. Bowers
Nov 15, 2019
Congress must “replace denial with a detailed, bipartisan legislative proposal on long-term care” to address the needs of a growing older population facing high costs for healthcare and housing, Robert...
Kramer: NIC transition will ‘focus my passion’
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 30, 2017
As Robert Kramer prepares to pass the CEO baton to Brian Jurutka at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care, both discuss the organization’s past and future in this exclusive interview.