Promotions, appointments and other news at Asbury, Caddis, The Ensign Group, The Glen at Scripps Ranch, Heritage Senior Living, LandSouth, Legacy Senior Living, Maplewood Senior Living, the National Center...
Healthcare, real estate and the Stanley Cup
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 14, 2019
Debra A. Cafaro, chairman and CEO of real estate investment trust Ventas Inc. recently spent a few minutes answering questions for McKnight’s Senior Living about the middle market, sustainability and...
Poll: 82% of pet owners won’t move to senior living without their animals
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 14, 2019
In a recent survey of older adults, 70% of pet owners said their animals are a deciding factor in where they will live as they age, and 82% of them said they would not consider moving to a senior living...
KKR is new financial partner for Benchmark
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 14, 2019
New York-based global investment firm KKR & Co. is a new financial partner for Benchmark Senior Living, buying 48 communities that formerly were owned by real estate investment trust Welltower.
Survey suggests challenges with life plan community name, despite industry support
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 12, 2019
Almost four years after LeadingAge and Mather LifeWays introduced “life plan community” as an alternative name for “continuing care retirement community,” more education may be needed for prospective...
Aventine Hill Communities looks to staff members’ loved ones for community names
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 08, 2019
Jacksonville, FL-based Aventine Hill Communities is entering a time of corporate expansion with plans to name each new senior living community after “influential loved ones of core staff members,”...
HCP closes on $866 million in acquisitions as it transforms senior housing portfolio
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 02, 2019
HCP continues work to transform the senior housing part of its portfolio, closing on $866 million in acquisitions in the second quarter, among other actions. The REIT’s CEO also commented on HCP’s...
Inflation ‘tug-of-war’ affects senior living construction
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 02, 2019
Inflation “seems to be playing a tug-of-war game” with the construction market, according to a new issue brief written by The Weitz Company for the American Seniors Housing Association.
Providers should be ‘actively involved’ as some Medicare beneficiaries begin receiving nonmedical...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 26, 2019
Two reports issued Thursday focus on ways the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services can offer nonmedical supplemental benefits to chronically ill enrollees.
Eight charged since March creation of Elder Abuse Task Force, attorney general says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 15, 2019
Eight defendants have been charged since an Elder Abuse Task Force with industry representation was established in March, according to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.