Senior housing and care lending relatively weak in second quarter: NIC
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 10, 2023
Senior living and care-related lending was relatively weak in the second quarter, likely due to yet another 0.25 percentage point rate increase from the Federal Reserve and significant disruptions among...
Brookdale Senior Living, Sabra Health Care REIT report third-quarter earnings
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 08, 2023
Third-quarter earnings reports continued Tuesday with calls held by Brookdale Senior Living and Sabra Health Care REIT.
National HealthCare Corp., Omega Healthcare Investors, Ventas report third-quarter earnings
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 06, 2023
National HealthCare Corp., Omega Healthcare Investors and Ventas released their third-quarter earnings results on Friday.
DHC will regain compliance by end of 2024, execs predict
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 03, 2023
Diversified Healthcare Trust has more than $700 million of debt coming due next year and remains out of compliance with its debt and current covenant. But the Newton, MA-based real estate investment trust,...
Healthcare workers face mental health crisis: CDC
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 26, 2023
Mental health and the “burnout crisis” affecting healthcare workers began well before the pandemic and still were prevalent in 2022, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and...
Rise in nursing home costs ‘drastically’ affects middle class: analysis
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 25, 2023
Increasing nursing home costs “drastically affect” members of the middle class, who may not qualify for Medicaid but can’t afford the specialized geriatric services that Medicare won’t pay...
Companies see financial wellness programs as ways to recruit, retain workers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 23, 2023
Employers are seeing financial wellness programs — with offerings such as basic money management tools and financial planning seminars and webinars — as a means of recruiting and retaining workers,...
Nursing home care among fastest-growing categories of national health spending: Altarum
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 20, 2023
Nursing home care represented one of the fastest-growing categories of national health spending in August, with year-over-year growth of 10.1%, according to Altarum’s monthly Health Sector Economic...
Erickson Senior Living’s MA plan earns top recognition from CMS for fourth year in a row
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 19, 2023
Erickson Advantage, Erickson Senior Living’s resident-only Medicare Advantage plan, has earned five stars from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the fourth consecutive year.
CareTrust REIT implements ‘green lease’ strategy
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 13, 2023
A new “green lease” strategy is one of the efforts highlighted in CareTrust REIT’s third annual corporate sustainability report, released Wednesday.