CNAs need more training, better compensation, authors say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 26, 2016
Certified nursing assistants caring for seniors should be required to undergo 120 hours of training, and their compensation should reflect the skills and knowledge required to perform high-quality work,...
Senior living companies launch Harvey relief efforts as Irma looms
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 05, 2017
As senior living providers in Florida brace for the possible effects of Hurricane Irma, operators with properties in Texas are beginning relief efforts to help those affected by Hurricane/Tropical Storm...
Capital Senior Living: COVID-19 effects ‘raise substantial doubt’ about future
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Lois A. Bowers
May 21, 2020
COVID-19’s negative effects on occupancy, revenues and expenses “raise substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern,” Capital Senior Living said Thursday in a press...
Anthem Memory Care occupancy, earnings improving, LTC CEO says
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 05, 2018
Anthem Memory Care continues to make progress on occupancy and earnings, LTC Properties Chairman, President and CEO Wendy Simpson said Friday during the Westlake Village, CA-based real estate investment...
PPE hoarding, price gouging now a crime, attorney general says; CEO cites ‘misplaced hierarchy’...
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 27, 2020
It is now a crime to hoard or price-gouge personal protective equipment, drugs and certain other health and medical resources that are scarce or threatened and needed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic,...
7 C-suite strategies to help you balance your personal and professional lives
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 28, 2020
It’s a perennial challenge for business professionals: How to balance the demands of our personal and professional lives. But COVID has added a new twist.
Senior living is a ‘huge opportunity’ in the long term, HCP believes
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Lois A. Bowers
May 02, 2017
Wage pressures and lower occupancy levels due to new supply in the marketplace are short-term issues for senior living, Thomas M. Herzog, CEO of HCP, told analysts and others participating in a first-quarter...
Economist’s solution for Medicare, Medicaid funding woes? Term limits
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 19, 2018
Imposing term limits on elected officials would help solve funding issues for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, Gary D. Cohn, former director of the National Economic Council in the Trump administration,...
Teamwork helps senior living operators face Hurricane Florence
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 12, 2018
Holiday Retirement, Erickson Living, Brookdale Senior Living and other senior living companies are preparing for the potential arrival of Hurricane Florence, currently a Category 4 hurricane, at their...
Atria in spotlight as staff members carry out Irma response plan
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 13, 2017
Atria Senior Living was in the public eye Monday night as TV talk show host Jimmy Kimmel interviewed actress Kristen Bell against a backdrop of residents who had been evacuated to the hotel where she was...