Attracting and keeping employees who will be passionate about their work is crucial at a time when workforce challenges are a top issue facing senior living operators, speakers told those attending an...
40 percent of senior living CEOs could be retiring within 5 years
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Lois A. Bowers
Feb 26, 2018
Forty percent of senior living CEOs could be retiring within the next five years, making succession planning an urgent matter, suggests a recent survey sponsored by LeadingAge.
LeadingAge leaders urge members to get active on Twitter and at home
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 28, 2019
LeadingAge now is using Twitter to bring attention to issues important to members by using the #DearCandidate hashtag, President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan said. But being politically active is about more...
Sloan takes the stage at LeadingAge
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Lois A. Bowers
Nov 02, 2015
Incoming President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan addressed attendees at a general session Monday that also included remarks by author Atul Gawande, M.D., and new board chair Kathryn Roberts as well as the...
A sneak peek at Pathways findings
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Lois A. Bowers
Nov 05, 2015
Presenters at a LeadingAge session provided hints about the latest findings of a project studying the financing of long-term services and supports, which formally will be revealed Nov. 17. Results “will...
How Masonic ‘got real’ and cut employee turnover
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 30, 2018
Masonic Communities Kentucky is cutting employee turnover by listening to employees about the benefits they want and the policies they perceive as problematic, Trasee Whitaker, the organization’s senior...
Former LeadingAge Board Chair, Ecumen CEO Kathryn Roberts remembered as ‘transformational leader’
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 18, 2021
Industry professionals are remembering former LeadingAge Board of Directors Chair and Ecumen President and CEO Kathryn Roberts, Ph.D., as a “transformational leader” as well as a visionary, a mentor...
CMS social media guidelines of value to all senior living settings, organization says
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 11, 2016
Even senior living operators beyond the purview of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would do well to heed the federal agency’s recent guidance on employee use of social media in the workplace,...
Federal Arbitration Act applies to states, too, Supreme Court says
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Lois A. Bowers
May 15, 2017
A resident representative holding power of attorney can be bound by an arbitration agreement that he or she signs on behalf of the resident, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday, asserting that states are...
Report: Catastrophic option may be best for LTSS financing
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 17, 2016
A mandatory, universal approach to long-term care insurance that covers catastrophic events could optimize coverage while minimizing costs, LeadingAge maintains in a new report.