New federal portal launches for reporting of anticompetitive healthcare practices
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 22, 2024
The Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services have launched an online portal for the reporting of anticompetitive practices in healthcare.
Could Sabra be positioned for a takeover by Welltower?
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 31, 2021
As is the case with many healthcare real estate investment trusts involved in senior housing, Sabra Health Care REIT has lost ground in recent years, according to “Trapping Value,” writing on Seeking...
Employer-sponsored emergency savings programs can improve worker productivity, tenure
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 09, 2024
Employer-sponsored emergency savings
National Health Investors expects more than 90 percent collection this month
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 21, 2021
National Health Investors already has collected 88.4% of its contractual cash due for July, the real estate investment trust said Monday in a business update.
Nonprofits cite pandemic for revenue decline
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Amy Novotney
Sep 11, 2020
Operators’ bottom line clearly have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new report by specialty investment bank Ziegler shows just how hard. The firm surveyed 230 senior living operators, largely...
NIC report: Half of SNFs reported declines in occupancy rates and a deceleration in move-in rates last...
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Amy Novotney
Apr 06, 2020
About half of nursing homes saw declines in their occupancy rates last month, according to data collected from owners and executives at 180 seniors housing and skilled nursing operators from across the...
Unions, worker advocates push for safeguards against expansion of temporary work visa program
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 20, 2022
The Biden administration has announced plans to add 20,000 H-2B temporary visas for winter hiring to meet employer demands, but organized labor has “raised alarms” that those programs will undermine...
Hiring from within key to reducing turnover in long-term care: survey
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 22, 2022
Skilled nursing facilities that hire from within their organizations had 22% less turnover in the past year than those that hire from outside their organizations, on average, according to the results of...
Seniors housing and care M&A activity drops 39% in the first quarter
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Amy Novotney
Apr 15, 2021
After a strong fourth quarter, merger and acquisition activity within the senior housing and care industries dropped precipitously to 77 deals in the first quarter of this year, according to data released...
Longer life expectancy, complicated retirement savings systems leaving many low-income workers unprepared...
By
Amy Novotney
Dec 22, 2020
Even before the pandemic began, almost half of all U.S. families reported lacking any retirement savings beyond Social Security, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In addition, with life expectancy...