Provider groups vow to continue work with policymakers to address middle-market challenges
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 26, 2019
Senior living advocates told McKnight’s Senior Living they will continue working with policymakers and others to try to ensure that middle-market adults have housing and care options as they age.
New coalition brings groups together to address provider, senior needs
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 01, 2019
The Florida Health Care Association, LeadingAge Florida and AARP have formed the Coalition for Silver Solutions with state legislators in an effort to develop short- and long-term strategies to meet the...
Uber, Circulation test nonemergency medical transportation program
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 27, 2016
A new partnership between ride-hailing service Uber and healthcare transportation platform Circulation will test a nonemergency medical transportation service at a PACE as well as acute-care and children’s...
Capital Senior Living incurs $1.4 million in COVID costs in third quarter
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Lois A. Bowers
Nov 06, 2020
Capital Senior Living said it incurred approximately $1.4 million in COVID-related costs in the third quarter, making its 2020 COVID-related cost total to date $4.6 million. Total operating expenses for...
Broker-dealer says it will ‘vigorously defend’ against allegations
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Lois A. Bowers
Nov 23, 2015
A representative for the dealer-broker that served as a placement agent for some of the holdings of a businessman accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of misusing the funds of senior living...
Memory care will be big growth area in 2018, senior living leaders predict
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Lois A. Bowers
Feb 14, 2018
Memory care will be the biggest growth area in senior living and long-term care in 2018, predict executives participating in Lancaster Pollard’s “2018 Seniors Housing and Care Survey,”...
Senior living parent companies form ‘game-changing’ drug company
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 24, 2018
Four healthcare giants — among them the parent companies of senior living community operators — have joined together to form a new nonprofit generic drug company that will aim to benefit senior living...
OSHA to withdraw COVID-19 vaccine mandate
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 25, 2022
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is withdrawing the COVID-19 vaccination-and-testing emergency temporary standard it originally announced in November, the Labor Department agency said...
Fund Alzheimer’s research, Senate committee told
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 06, 2016
Witnesses testifying before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and committee members themselves, called for more funding for Alzheimer’s research at an April 6 hearing.
New report details way to finance LTSS
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 09, 2017
A universal, catastrophic insurance program sufficiently could finance the needs of those who need long-term services and supports, and a “managed cash” benefit design might best pay for service...