CVS: Independent living residents will continue to wait for COVID-19 vaccination
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 05, 2021
Independent living residents, even those who live in continuing care retirement / life plan communities, will have to continue to wait for COVID-19 vaccination, according to a retail pharmacy giant providing...
Community on provisional license; 2 former leaders face felony charges, for not reporting abuse
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 23, 2022
A Pennsylvania senior living community is operating on a provisional license and two now former administrators are facing multiple felony charges after it was found that the administrators did not report...
Camaraderie, coaching, cash, car: One provider’s quest to increase COVID vaccination among staff
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 06, 2021
Vaccinated workers for a Vero Beach, FL-based senior living operator stand to win a piece of $100,000 in cash prizes and a 2021 Nissan Versa in a grand prize drawing this week. But the company’s...
‘Game-changing’: Senior living giant Good Sam joins growing list of providers mandating COVID-19...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 26, 2021
The Sioux Falls, SD-based Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society is the latest senior living and care organization — and one of the largest yet — to mandate COVID-19 vaccination as a condition...
Amazon technology challenge focuses on easing aging process
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 17, 2022
Meeting the needs of older adults as well as some members of Generation X and the Baby Boom generation is the goal of the latest Amazon Alexa Skills Challenge.
Accused senior living serial killer receives second capital murder conviction
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 10, 2022
A Dallas County grand jury took less than 30 minutes to hand accused senior living serial killer Billy Chemirmir his second capital murder conviction on Friday. The decision came in a trial related to...
Prison sentences don’t reflect ‘horror’ doled out to workers by residential care facility owners,...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 10, 2023
Multi-year prison sentences on human trafficking and labor-related charges were handed down Wednesday for three members of a family that owned and operated adult residential care facilities in California.
Murder charge faces assisted living operator for death of resident
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 24, 2024
An operator of several unlicensed assisted living homes in Texas previously charged with abandoning a resident now is facing a murder charge after another resident’s death was ruled a homicide.
Senior living community among ‘unwitting’ providers swept up in $114 million fake nursing degree...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 30, 2023
A New Jersey assisted living community was among many “unwitting healthcare providers” across the country duped into hiring more than 7,600 nurses with fake credentials due to a $114 million fraud...