OSHA accepting new comments on healthcare worker COVID-19 protection rule
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 23, 2022
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is accepting additional comments as it works to establish a final rule meant to protect assisted living and other healthcare workers from exposure to COVID-19...
3 initiatives will help Five Star improve operations, CEO says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 07, 2019
As Five Star Senior Living executives prioritize finding a long-term solution to the company’s current financial issues, the company also is focused on three initiatives to improve operations in 2019,...
Hebrew SeniorLife expansion gets funding from town
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 28, 2021
The nonprofit Hebrew SeniorLife in Randolph, MA, is expanding its affordable senior housing with help from the town, and the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development will support the...
New measure aims to better protect senior living residents from waterborne illnesses
By
Amy Novotney
Jun 14, 2022
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) has signed into law legislation aimed at protecting senior living residents in the state from waterborne illnesses. The measure, signed May 27 and going into effect immediately,...
Singapore company buys 50% stake in Watermark for $77 million
Aug 03, 2018
Singapore-based Keppel Corp. Ltd. is entering the senior living market by purchasing a 50% stake in Tucson, AZ-based Watermark Retirement Communities for up to $77.3 million, the company announced Thursday.
Free e-book details IT requirements for senior living
Feb 01, 2016
Keystone Technologies has published an e-book with guidance on how senior living facilities can develop an information technology roadmap.
Value-based models may help improve occupancy, increase investor confidence post-COVID, speakers say
By
Amy Novotney
Mar 25, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust healthcare for older adults into the spotlight, making access to services an important part of an operator’s value proposition for both residents and investors, speakers...
Despite COVID setback, investors on track to make money in senior living, Merrill president says
By
Amy Novotney
Mar 15, 2021
The last three decades in the senior living industry have seen several major recessions and breaches of confidence, but all of them also have provided an opportunity for the sector to come back stronger...
‘Right now’ is most challenging time for many senior living providers
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 30, 2021
Continued unemployment compensation, wage pressures, decreased occupancy and increased costs continue to create challenges for many senior living providers, according to speakers at an Argentum congressional...
Future of seniors housing industry is ‘all about a vaccine’: NIC economist
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 06, 2020
The future of seniors housing will depend on several factors, but to National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Chief Economist Beth Burnham Mace, “It’s all about a vaccine.”