Operator leverages healthcare AI platform to optimize population health analytics
By
John O'Connor
Apr 18, 2024
Senior living operator Pine Park Health announced it is adopting Innovaccer’s AI platform to improve population health analytics across its communities in Arizona, California and Nevada.
Technology-use changes essential to reducing loneliness ‘epidemic,’ surgeon general warns
By
John O'Connor
May 05, 2023
Reforming digital environments can help reduce a loneliness epidemic that disproportionately affects the elderly, according to US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD.
Operators without backup generators are feeling the heat
By
John O'Connor
Apr 08, 2021
Some Texas lawmakers are pretty ticked off at senior living communities these days. Or at least the settings without backup power generators.
Pandemic undermines Medicaid block grant approach: report
By
John O'Connor
Apr 17, 2020
Some policymakers have pushed Medicaid block grants as a way to reform and improve the federal-state program. But an ongoing pandemic reveals how such an approach could be harmful to states and those served,...
Survey finds – surprise – PPE is in short supply
By
John O'Connor
Apr 16, 2020
If personal protective equipment is in short supply at your community, you’re hardly alone. At least, that’s what new findings by Premier strongly suggest.
Seniors more prepared for pandemic but also more lonely
By
John O'Connor
Apr 16, 2020
How are seniors nationwide faring one month into social distancing? The results paint a mixed picture, according to a survey by TheSeniorList.
For many residents, cabin fever persisting well into spring
By
John O'Connor
Apr 15, 2020
It’s not just working-from-home employees who are grappling with a late spring dose of cabin fever. Forced to stay inside and often in their own units, senior living residents must also deal with the...
More senior living operators embracing electronic health options, study finds
By
John O'Connor
Mar 04, 2020
More assisted living operators are harnessing electronic health record systems and participating in health information exchanges, a report backed by the National Center for Health Statistics has found.
McKnight’s 40 for 40: Debra Cafaro
By
John O'Connor
Mar 02, 2020
How different is Ventas since Debra Cafaro took over? Only about as different as night and day.
McKnight’s 40 for 40: Robert G. Kramer
By
John O'Connor
Feb 24, 2020
When people discuss how freely capital now flows in this sector, demographics and a strong economy usually get the credit. Often overlooked is the man perhaps most responsible for opening the spigot.