DHC looks to senior living community sales, other strategies, to recover
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 03, 2023
Diversified Healthcare Trust is implementing a recovery strategy to return the company to a position of growth, pinning its hopes on continued improvement in its senior housing operating portfolio, although...
Arrow Senior Living plans Joint Commission assisted living accreditation for entire portfolio
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 27, 2022
Vitalia North Olmsted has become the second stand-alone assisted living community in the United States — and the first in Ohio — to receive accreditation by The Joint Commission. The announcement comes...
McKnight’s Women of Distinction class of 2023 welcomes 16 Rising Stars
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Lois A. Bowers
Feb 14, 2023
Sixteen women working in senior living, skilled nursing or home care are being announced today as Rising Stars and will be feted May 22 as part of the fifth annual McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards.
First senior living community earns Joint Commission assisted living memory care certification
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 29, 2023
A Missouri senior living community is the first such community to receive the Joint Commission’s assisted living memory care certification.
Train employees for ‘acuity creep’ or face potential risk
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 03, 2023
DENVER—The level of needs of older adults moving into assisted living communities today is similar to that of seniors who would move into nursing homes in the past, and if operators and providers don’t...
Move-ins decline with slowdown in lead conversions, sales: NIC
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 15, 2023
Slowdowns in lead conversions or sales were the most common reasons cited for a recent decline in the pace of move-ins in senior living among respondents to a National Investment Center for Seniors Housing...
Sonida CEO optimistic about future after ‘transformational’ year
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 28, 2024
2023 was a “transformational” year for Dallas-based Sonida Senior Living, and it paved the way for growth in 2024 and beyond, President and CEO Brandon Ribar said Wednesday during the company’s...
Bill aims to prevent Medicaid Access Rule implementation
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 29, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would be prohibited from implementing the Medicaid Access Rule under a bill introduced last week in the House of Representatives.
Industry’s diversity, inclusion efforts starting from a place of strength: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 10, 2022
The senior living industry has some work to do to advance diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, or DEIB, but the industry is in an enviable position to draw from its people-focused mission, according...
Buoyed by occupancy success, Thrive plans growth in active adult
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 25, 2023
Some senior living operators continue to rebuild occupancy in the wake of the pandemic, but three Thrive Senior Living communities have achieved 100% occupancy — with one community at full capacity for...