West Point, PA-based Acts Retirement-Life Communities and Eldersburg, MD-based Integrace have completed their affiliation, bringing the two not-for-profit organizations together under shared governance...
Former Sunwest CEO gets 15 years
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 17, 2015
Former Sunwest Management CEO Jon Michael Harder has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for defrauding assisted living community investors of millions of dollars.
Skyrizi approved for psoriatic arthritis
Jan 26, 2022
The approval was based on two Phase 3 trials showing that more than 50% of patients receiving Skyrizi achieved an ACR20 response at 24 weeks.
Bipartisan legislation seeks $400 million for long-term care training, buildout of national immunization...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 29, 2021
Two House lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday that seeks $400 million to provide training in long-term care facilities and facilitate data-sharing between states and the federal government to hasten...
Addus Home Care joins vaccination reward program
By
Diane Eastabrook
Oct 13, 2021
A partnership between Addus Home Care and the National Minority Health Association could result in thousands more COVID-19 shots in the arms of residents living in medically underserved communities.
Road traffic, railway noise linked to increased dementia risk
Sep 10, 2021
The general pattern showed higher hazard ratios with higher noise exposure, with levelling off or a decline at higher noise levels.
Lawmakers introduce legislation aimed at bolstering wages, benefits for SNF workforce
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 26, 2021
The Nursing Home Workforce Support and Expansion Act, introduced in the House of Representatives Tuesday, would help skilled nursing providers recruit and retain caregivers by helping to strengthen wages...
Acts Retirement-Life Communities, The Evergreens affiliate
Feb 22, 2018
West Point, PA-based Acts Retirement-Life Communities expands its operations to New Jersey with an affiliation with The Evergreens, a continuing care retirement community in Moorestown, NJ.
The effects of COVID-19 have not escaped the senior living and skilled nursing operators in LTC Properties’ portfolio, executives shared Monday on the real estate investment trust’s first-quarter 2020...
COVID-19 liability shields may lead to neglect, critics argue
By
Amy Novotney
Jan 28, 2021
North Carolina is just one of dozens of states that has granted legal immunity to skilled nursing facilities and assisted living communities to shield them from COVID-19-related lawsuits. In addition,...