Healthpeak continues exit of ‘volatile’ senior housing market with $4B in sales, moves headquarters
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 04, 2020
Although not the reason behind Healthpeak Properties’ planned exit of its senior housing operating and triple-net lease portfolio businesses, COVID-19 certainly served as a catalyst for a full exit,...
Operators better prepared to manage next pandemic: LTC Properties CEO
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 02, 2020
The senior living and care industry has faced considerable challenges related to COVID-19, but operators now have better tools and a better understanding of how to manage in the pandemic, LTC Properties...
New Welltower CEO remains committed to ‘wellness infrastructure’
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 30, 2020
During his first earnings call as CEO of Welltower, Shankh Mitra said the Toledo, OH-based real estate investment trust’s strategy will not change.
‘Not just a nursing home issue’: COVID a challenge in affordable senior housing: LeadingAge survey
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 22, 2020
Close to 60% of nonprofit senior housing providers surveyed by LeadingAge reported confirmed COVID-19 cases in their communities, raising concerns about the more than 2.5 million low-income older adults...
COVID-19 ‘nightmare’ provides ‘teachable moment’ for industry: NIC panel
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 07, 2020
COVID-19 is “a nightmare beyond any worst-case scenario” for the senior living and care industry, but the overriding message is “we’re going to get through this,” Mark Parkinson, president and...
Future of seniors housing industry is ‘all about a vaccine’: NIC economist
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 06, 2020
The future of seniors housing will depend on several factors, but to National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Chief Economist Beth Burnham Mace, “It’s all about a vaccine.”
‘Ugly period’ of pandemic is over, but ‘COVID hangovers’ will persist: panelists
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 05, 2020
The “ugly period” of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind the senior living industry, but a couple of “COVID hangovers” will persist moving forward, according to industry experts participating in a...
Assisted living to receive 15 million more COVID tests, but more support needed, provider groups say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 30, 2020
Assisted living communities will receive 15 million additional COVID-19 rapid, point-of-care antigen tests in the coming weeks, President Donald Trump announced Monday in providing an update on the nation’s...
People in the news, Sept. 29
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 29, 2020
Appointments, promotions, departures and awards at Arbors of Hop Brook, Bishop Gadsden Episocpal Retirement Communities, Blake Management Group, Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care, Carely, Christian...
‘Out of control’: Panelists share frustrations, solutions to managing cash flow during pandemic
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 24, 2020
The global coronavirus pandemic has created a “tsunami” of decreasing occupancy, coupled with increasing costs related to personal protective equipment and labor, to create an operating environment...