Industry veteran hopes new company will be ‘next best regional operator’
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 09, 2022
Eighteen-year senior living veteran Scott McCorvie launched Vita Senior Living this month with plans to acquire select communities in Florida.
Diversity and inclusion progress continues despite COVID-19 challenges: Study
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 12, 2022
Most corporate human resources diversity leaders (67%) believe that the pandemic has not adversely affected improvements that their organizations have made related to diversity and inclusion, according...
Adequate, consistent staffing necessary for senior living and care: AMDA
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 02, 2021
The pandemic made it even more clear that more workers are needed in senior living and care, according to a position statement released Thursday by AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care...
Inflation Reduction Act called a ‘game-changer’
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 09, 2022
Medicare beneficiaries will not have to pay more than $2,000 per year for their medications, and beneficiaries with diabetes will not have to pay more than $35 per month for insulin, under the terms of...
Brokerage employees working with senior living facilities accused of setting up captives, skimming
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 27, 2022
An Oregon insurance brokerage firm that serves senior living facilities is suing some former employees for allegedly moving existing partners’ insurance policies into captives for clients and then skimming...
Former school repurposed for New England’s first LBGTQ affordable senior housing community
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 13, 2022
The former William Barton Rogers Middle School in Hyde Park, MA, which has sat idle for years, soon will see new life as Boston’s — and all of New England’s — first affordable housing community...
Long-term care operators wait as CNA candidates encounter exam issues in PA
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 23, 2022
Prospective certified nurse aides in Pennsylvania are coming up against long wait times to schedule licensing testing and are giving up on employment in healthcare, state lawmakers were told at a public...
Federal investigators confirm that UnitedHealth short-changed suppliers that administered COVID-19 vaccinations...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 26, 2021
UnitedHealth Group will reprocess all of its commercial claims related to COVID-19 vaccine administration, after federal investigators confirmed that the nation’s largest insurer paid “millions”...
Thousands of Washingtonians look to opt out of long-term care insurance tax
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 09, 2021
Washington state is set to launch next year the nation’s first publicly operated insurance program next year to help offset residents’ future long-term care costs, but not all workers are on board...
Equity, debt capital structuring push Regional Health Properties toward growth, REIT says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 18, 2021
Regional Health Properties said Monday that it expects to move into growth mode heading into the third quarter. The Suwanee, GA-based real estate investment trust reported its second-quarter earnings in...