Solar installations have more senior communities keeping water hot, A/C cool and communities green
By
Aaron Dorman
Jul 18, 2023
An affordable senior communities company has installed solar panels for electricity and hot water at four new locations.
63-SNF Regency becomes new nonprofit, Wellsential Health
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 10, 2023
The Victoria, TX-based organization now known as Wellsential Health now is the largest family of nonprofit SNFs in Texas, according to the company.
State high court decisions keep COVID immunity in play but define scope
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 14, 2023
Connecticut’s highest court has offered a mixed ruling for a nursing home that sought dismissal of a wrongful death suit under a state provision limiting COVID-era liability. The rulings put senior...
State Supreme Court re-examines 8-year-old nursing home class action lawsuit
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 06, 2023
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday reopened a nearly decade-old class action lawsuit against a nursing home provider after the plaintiffs claimed that Judge Timothy Fox “repeatedly failed to follow...
Actions & Transactions, July 18
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 18, 2024
Capital Funding Group closes $23.6 million for refinancing of Delaware SNF … Carnegie at Washingtonian Center, a Kisco Signature community, begins business operations ahead of grand opening … Kaiser...
Bake sale-supported nursing home turns to assisted living to survive
By
Josh Henreckson
Apr 05, 2024
A Rhode Island nursing home that had turned to a grassroots funding campaign that included a resident-run bake sale to avoid closure is reworking one of its floors into a memory-care focused assisted...
Skilled nursing operators will recover by 2022 — without federal help, says ratings agency
By
Amy Novotney
Dec 17, 2020
Although many in the senior care industry have been focusing on the recent surge in COVID-19 deaths and record low skilled nursing occupancy rates, one ratings agency says it’s banking on a full recovery...
Why skilled care’s pain could be senior living’s gain
By
John O'Connor
Feb 15, 2018
If you can deliver post-acute care at a lower cost than the skilled care joint down the street, you just might find yourself swimming in a very nice new revenue stream.
Members of Congress call on CMS to collaborate in addressing nursing home workforce challenges
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 14, 2022
A bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives is looking to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to work with them to resolve workforce shortages experienced by nursing homes across...
Pressing questions about rural telehealth access and investments put innovation in danger
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 23, 2024
Questions remain about how much providers will be able to rely on telehealth, remote monitoring and other technologies to come in the years ahead — and whether the government will make the needed legal,...