Largest affordable senior housing community built within past decade to open this fall
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 30, 2024
Sawyer’s Walk, the largest affordable senior housing community built in the United States, will open in Miami this fall, according to developer SG Holdings, a partnership among Swerdlow Group, SJM Partners...
FDA approves another blood test for colon cancer screening
Jul 29, 2024
Currently, colonoscopy is the gold standard test for colon cancer, but adherence to it is low because it is invasive and preparation for the test is daunting.
New bill targeting private equity, REIT transparency muddies waters for assisted living
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 29, 2024
An updated version of a bill targeting transparency for private equity firms has removed assisted living from the mix of covered entities, but a tax code definition covering real estate investment trusts...
Federal judge certifies subclasses in Brookdale class action lawsuit; trial set for January
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 29, 2024
A long-running California class action lawsuit filed against Brookdale Senior Living will go forward early next year after a judge granted a motion to certify three community-based subclasses in the case.
Clif Porter sees ‘huge’ opportunities and ‘some level of trepidation’ for assisted living as...
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 29, 2024
As Clif Porter prepares to become the next president and CEO of the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living, he sees good things ahead for assisted living providers, but he...
Meet Becky Bodie, 2024 Hall of Honor inductee
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Josh Henreckson
Jul 29, 2024
Becky Bodie, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Diversicare Healthcare Services in Brentwood, TN, is a Hall of Honor inductee in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
Ensign ‘excited’ about acquisitions; Healthpeak CCRCs have ‘pretty good first half’
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 29, 2024
The Ensign Group and Healthpeak Properties detailed second-quarter 2024 earnings results on Friday calls with investors and analysts.
4 Ascension Living properties sold to Prime Healthcare in ‘historic’ deal
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 26, 2024
Four Ascension Living senior living and care properties in Illinois will be sold to Ontario, CA-based Prime Healthcare along with nine Ascension hospitals and associated physician practices in The Prairie...
Trilogy Health Services to expand, build properties in 4 Midwest states
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 26, 2024
Louisville, KY-based Trilogy Health Services on Thursday announced plans to develop or expand its senior living or skilled nursing offerings in four Midwest states: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio.
Artificial intelligence doesn’t beat doctors in diagnosing medical issues based on images, study reveals
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Kristen Fischer
Jul 26, 2024
An artificial intelligence model solved quiz questions testing doctors’ abilities to diagnose conditions based on images and text summaries accurately. However, it made mistakes when trying to describe...