A California operator of assisted living, memory care, post-acute care and rehabilitation facilities will pay $325,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
New law requires long-term care outbreak-response plans in wake of 11 deaths
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 19, 2019
The death of 11 children in a New Jersey long-term care facility last year prompted a new law requiring assisted living and memory care communities and other long-term care providers to submit outbreak...
Medication underuse increases hospitalization, death risk
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 19, 2016
Older adults who underuse essential medications increase their risk of being hospitalized or dying, according to the results of a newly published study
Healthcare, real estate and the Stanley Cup
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 14, 2019
Debra A. Cafaro, chairman and CEO of real estate investment trust Ventas Inc. recently spent a few minutes answering questions for McKnight’s Senior Living about the middle market, sustainability and...
Assisted living operators charged with felonies after air conditioning fails, resident dies
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 16, 2019
Two operators of an Arizona assisted living facility have been indicted on felony abuse charges after the facility’s air conditioning failed and a resident died, Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced...
Brookdale in ‘seventh inning’ of portfolio pruning, CEO says
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Lois A. Bowers
Nov 07, 2018
Brookdale Senior Living is in the “seventh inning” of trimming the size of its portfolio through community sales and lease terminations, CEO Lucinda “Cindy” Baier said Tuesday on the company’s...
Sloan takes the stage at LeadingAge
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Lois A. Bowers
Nov 02, 2015
Incoming President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan addressed attendees at a general session Monday that also included remarks by author Atul Gawande, M.D., and new board chair Kathryn Roberts as well as the...
CDC: 14% of those 75+ have early symptom of Alzheimer’s
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 17, 2018
Fourteen percent of adults aged 75 or more years have subjective cognitive decline, one of the earliest noticeable symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, according to new data from the Centers for Disease...
Uber, Circulation test nonemergency medical transportation program
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 27, 2016
A new partnership between ride-hailing service Uber and healthcare transportation platform Circulation will test a nonemergency medical transportation service at a PACE as well as acute-care and children’s...
GAO: Protecting healthcare workers from violence should be priority for new administration
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Lois A. Bowers
Nov 13, 2016
Protecting healthcare workers, including those employed in residential care settings, from workplace violence should be a priority for the new administration, the Government Accountability Office said...