Ventas ‘optimistic’ as senior living outlook remains competitive
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 19, 2021
In looking back at 2020, Ventas Chairman and CEO Debra Cafaro called it a “grueling” year “dominated by the pandemic and punctuated by extreme weather disruptions,” but she said the company’s...
A LeadingAge survey measuring the effects of COVID-19 on affordable senior housing providers found spikes in COVID-19 cases at communities, severe financial strain among providers and concerns about resident...
COVID relief package needs to address pandemic ‘dangers’ to older adults, provider group says
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 16, 2021
LeadingAge is stepping up calls on Congress to adopt a COVID relief package addressing the dangers that the pandemic poses to senior living residents and other older adults.
Welltower works to preserve value after 2020 that was anything but ‘plain vanilla’
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 11, 2021
“We came into 2020 prepared for a plain vanilla business cycle downturn,” Welltower CEO and Chief Investment Officer Shankh Mitra said during the real estate investment trust’s fourth-quarter and...
Workers’ rights legislation could exacerbate senior living workforce challenges, industry experts...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 08, 2021
A group of federal lawmakers has resurrected legislation that could result in major labor law changes that potentially would exacerbate workforce challenges already facing the senior living industry, industry...
Omega opens 2021 with $510M Brookdale acquisition, ‘far more selective’ approach to senior living...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 08, 2021
Omega Healthcare Investors started the year by completing a $510 million deal with Healthpeak Properties that resulted in the acquisition of 24 Brookdale Senior Living communities.
Hope arrives for independent living through creative solutions, mobile units
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 08, 2021
As states and local public health agencies reclaim unused vaccines from the federal Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care program and the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program gets ready to roll out, attention...
Senior living provider takes COVID vaccinations into its own hands with certification
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 03, 2021
A Fort Worth, TX-based senior living owner and operator is taking COVID-19 vaccination into its own hands, becoming certified by the Lone Star State to directly vaccinate its residents, employees and essential...
Senior living industry reminds Congress, administration to prioritize older adults in relief packages
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 02, 2021
As Democrats continue plans to move forward with a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill and Republicans meet with President Biden to discuss a $600 billion counter offer, senior living industry executives...
New administration, Congress bring increased scrutiny on senior living: NIC panel
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 28, 2021
Long-term services and supports, value-based care and regulatory scrutiny are among the key issues facing senior living providers one week after President Biden’s inauguration.