The Department of Labor will beef up its Nursing Expansion Grant Program with $80 million in grants, the department announced Monday.
Stellar Senior Living to manage 10 former Five Star properties in Diversified portfolio
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 08, 2021
As part of a strategic plan for Five Star Senior Living to exit the skilled nursing business completely and, in senior living, focus on larger communities, Stellar Senior Living has entered into an agreement...
Nursing home sales, closures, halts to admissions come as staffing shortages continue
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 12, 2022
As staffing shortages continue to plague nursing homes, sales, closures and admissions stoppages are becoming more frequent, according to respondents to a survey by the Long-Term Care Imperative, a collaboration...
Five Star mandates COVID vaccination for employees
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 03, 2021
Five Star Senior Living is among the latest on a growing list of long-term care providers requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The company on Tuesday announced a Sept. 21 deadline...
ProMedica shakes up leadership amid troubled finances
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 26, 2022
In the wake of continued financial woes, Toledo, OH-based Promedica made significant changes to its executive leadership team on Monday. Tausha Moore, the company’s director of public relations,...
University-based retirement community reaches 90 percent reservation rate for independent living
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 22, 2022
Five months after construction began, Broadview Senior Living, a university-based retirement community on the campus of Purchase College in Westchester County, NY, has a 90% reservation rate for its 220...
As pandemic-related workforce challenges continue to plague long-term care, operators find themselves competing with a “gig economy,” where many workers want to be paid immediately for services rendered...
‘Hung out to dry’: Groups urge extension for vaccine mandate in Maine
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 31, 2021
Five healthcare advocacy groups are asking Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) to extend the deadline for mandatory vaccines for healthcare workers across the state, citing a “severe and worsening essential support...
Cost inflation is ‘strategic challenge’ in senior living construction
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 10, 2022
Cost inflation continues to be a hot topic and a “strategic challenge” in senior living construction, Tad Melton, managing director at Ziegler, said Wednesday at a webinar hosted by the specialty investment...
U.S. Court of Appeals upholds California’s retirement savings program
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 11, 2021
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower court ruling in favor of the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings program, or CalSavers.