Calls for COVD-19 vaccination mandates for long-term care workers draw mixed reactions
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 27, 2021
Fifty-seven healthcare organizations, including LeadingAge, which represents more than 5,000 nonprofit aging services providers, issued a joint statement Monday calling for long-term care and other healthcare...
Actions & Transactions, April 4
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 04, 2022
Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital closes 5 loans totaling $151M to finance 9 senior living communities … Lument closes $18.9M FHA refinance for Guilford House … LTC Properties declares...
AlerisLife, formerly Five Star Senior Living, closes $95M term loan
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 01, 2022
After rebranding as AlerisLife last week, the Newton, MA-based company formerly known as Five Star Senior Living announced Monday the closing of a $95 million senior secured term loan.
REITs look forward to stabilizing growing portfolios in coming decade
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 09, 2021
Occupancy rates likely have bottomed out, and growth opportunities are on the rise, according to presenters yesterday at Nareit’s REITweek Investor Conference.
States, courts take actions that complicate vaccine mandate effects
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 01, 2021
So far, courts across the country—all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court—have sided with state governments on imposed vaccine requirements. The justices declined Friday to even hear a case challenging...
16-state coalition seeks to block CMS vax mandate
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 08, 2022
Attorneys general from 16 states asked a federal judge Friday to block the U.S. government from enforcing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate in their respective states...
Fingerprinting requirement could bring hiring and retention headaches for providers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 07, 2021
A state-mandated requirement to process a backlog of non-fingerprinted workers in Connecticut could exacerbate workforce challenges already experienced by long-term care employers there.
Business briefs, June 9
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 09, 2022
Register now for the McKnight’s Senior Living Online Expo, a week away … Workforce situation worsens in assisted living; half of communities may close … Back-up generators, emergency plans required...
Actions & Transactions, April 20
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 20, 2022
Oak Trace breaks ground on second phase of a $112M expansion … Freddie Mac Multifamily to issue $92.8M in social bonds for creation of 4 AZ affordable senior housing communities … Cambridge Realty...
Occupancy increases for assisted living, nursing homes; decreases for memory care: NIC
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 14, 2022
Assisted living and nursing homes occupancy is on the rise, but memory care communities are seeing declining occupancy, according to the latest NIC Executive Survey Insights report released Thursday.