Brookdale expects COVID-19 expenses to reach $50 million for quarter, CEO says
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 04, 2020
When it comes to COVID-19, Brookdale President and CEO Lucinda “Cindy” Baier said, shareholders and potential investors typically want to hear about four areas: protocols and progress on COVID-19 testing...
OSHA suspends implementation of COVID-19 vaccine mandate for businesses
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Lois A. Bowers
Nov 17, 2021
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration says that it is suspending enforcement of its COVID-19 vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard after a court ordered...
COVID, workforce, financial issues confront senior living providers as 2023 starts, leaders say
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 03, 2023
Addressing the burnout plaguing existing employees while working to entice others to join the industry will be a focus of providers in 2023.
Brookdale takes ‘next step’ in pandemic in mandating staff vaccination: CEO
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 06, 2021
Brookdale Senior Living President and CEO Lucinda “Cindy” Baier announced a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for its approximately 35,000 workers during today’s second-quarter earnings call,...
‘Tough operating environment’ means Healthpeak’s future growth is outside of senior housing, executives...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 06, 2020
The majority of Healthpeak Properties’ future growth will be in the life sciences and medical office buildings, and a potential exists that the real estate investment trust will reduce its investment...
Assisted living operators need PPE and testing, should report COVID-19 data to federal government, House...
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 26, 2020
Congress should take “immediate steps” to get needed personal protective equipment to assisted living communities, nursing homes, home- and community-based settings and other places where older adults...
Federal COVID-19 vaccination, testing mandates have pros, cons, experts say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 05, 2021
Although generally supportive of federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates for members of its workforce, senior living leaders are concerned about the effects on its workforce.
41% don’t trust assisted living, nursing homes to keep residents safe during pandemic: survey
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 11, 2020
Forty-one percent of participants in a new survey said they don’t trust assisted living communities and nursing homes to keep older adults safe amid the coronavirus pandemic.
AHCA / NCAL asks federal government to extend public health emergency, prioritize assisted living for...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 08, 2020
The federal government should extend the public health emergency declaration beyond July 26 and prioritize assisted living communities and nursing homes when a COVID-19 vaccination becomes available, American...
Social isolation ‘cannot become the new normal,’ senators say during Aging Committee hearing
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 12, 2020
Although social distancing has become a “core tool in our effort to save lives and help flatten the curve of COVID-19, social isolation cannot become the new normal, especially for our older adults population,”...