Travel can benefit both family caregivers and care recipients: AARP
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 11, 2024
Despite challenges, there are innate benefits for family caregivers when they do make trips with their care recipients, according to the results of a survey by the AARP.
Department of Labor announces virus-related liability protections in light of executive order
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 29, 2020
In a move that may provide leverage in the battle for legal immunity for long-term care providers, the Department of Labor released a statement Tuesday providing some liability protections for meat industry...
Addressing racial, ethnic disparities could improve nursing care: study
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 11, 2021
To curb the COVID-19 pandemic in nursing homes and other facilities, and to protect vulnerable populations, nursing homes may need to make deliberate efforts in communities with a higher concentration...
‘Long COVID’ could mean insurance cost increases for employers
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 12, 2022
More than two years into adjusting to the “new normal” brought on by COVID-19, employers now are faced with navigating the reality of “long COVID,” a wide range of ongoing health problems that...
Fitch lowers life plan community sector outlook to negative, but no all-encompassing rating action
By
Amy Novotney
May 27, 2020
Fitch Ratings has revised its outlook on life plan communities to negative last week, reflecting the rating agency’s concern that many of COVID’s risks still lie ahead.
Investing in private rooms may have prevented nearly a third of COVID-19 long-term care infections, deaths:...
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 27, 2021
Greater investment in proper infrastructure, including private rooms and adequate staffing, likely would have gone a long way in protecting long-term care residents from COVID-19 outbreaks, an international...
Sagepoint Senior Living cleared of $440,000 in infection control citations from beginning of COVID-19...
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 29, 2021
One year after an inspection by the Office of Healthcare Quality, an independent administrative law judge has overturned all violations found against Maryland assisted living and skilled nursing operator...
3,000+ nursing home workers have died from COVID, union says
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 28, 2023
More than 1.5 million nursing home workers have been infected with COVID-19 and more than 3,000 have died since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a recent report from the AFL-CIO.
Business briefs for Wednesday, April 22
Apr 22, 2020
Kindred Healthcare cuts employee pay by 10% … Pandemic putting sizable dent in near-term demand and significantly increasing expenses for healthcare REITs … Nareit: April seniors housing and skilled...
Confluent, MorningStar break ground on new community incorporating infection control design changes
By
Amy Novotney
Jan 28, 2021
Co-developers Confluent Senior Living and MorningStar Senior Living broke ground Wednesday on the development of an urban infill community in Denver’s Observatory Park neighborhood.