Senior living must boost consumer confidence after pandemic: senior living community exec
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 21, 2021
Senior living operators must look at ways to boost consumer confidence after months of declining occupancy during the pandemic, according to Ken Segarnick, chief corporate officer at New Jersey-based Brandywine...
Investors re-evaluate parameters of financial performance post-pandemic: NIC Leadership Huddle
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 17, 2021
Equity and debt partners are looking a little differently at the relationships among revenues, expenses and returns than they did before the pandemic, according to panelists at yesterday’s Leadership...
Proposed law would prohibit assisted living providers from mandating, requesting or asking about any...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 15, 2021
An Ohio bill targeting vaccine passports is written broadly enough that it could weaken the state’s vaccination laws for all vaccines — not just COVID-19 ones — and place senior housing providers...
Occupancy levels likely to have reached low point: NIC report
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 14, 2021
Senior living occupancy levels appear to be inching their way back from an all-time low of 78.7% in March, according to the intra-quarterly report published last week by the National Investment Center...
OSHA announces COVID-19-related safety rules for senior living, other healthcare workplaces
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 11, 2021
Assisted living communities and other healthcare settings will be required to conduct hazard assessments and have written plans to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus under new workplace safety rules...
Popularity of home health, home care forces other long-term care providers to step up game, execs say
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jun 09, 2021
Acknowledging increased competition from home health and home care providers, executives from long-term care companies said they’re focusing on innovation and creativity to compete for clients.
Senior housing market likely to rebound from pandemic recession: NIC analysis
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 07, 2021
The senior housing market rebounded during the 2007-09 global financial crisis and is likely to bounce back similarly from the COVID-19 recession, according to side-by-side analyses of the two economic...
64 percent of senior living communities saw no COVID-19-related deaths: NIC-funded study
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 03, 2021
A majority (64%) of senior living communities reported no COVID-19 deaths in 2020, according to an analysis of COVID-19 deaths across the long-term care residential continuum released today.
As lead volumes grow, most operators expect pre-pandemic occupancy in 2022: NIC survey
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 01, 2021
Senior housing and care market fundamentals may have reached a turning point at the end of March, according to results of an executive survey released Thursday by the National Investment Center for Seniors...
Encompass Health CEO: Referrals from elective surgeries are rebounding, but skilled nursing referrals...
By
Diane Eastabrook
May 26, 2021
“Green shoots in the trend of elective procedures” are providing the momentum to return the home healthcare business to near pre-pandemic levels by the second half of this year, Encompass Health CEO...