Investors have ‘growing pool’ of senior living opportunities
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 20, 2024
Senior living investors have a “growing pool of opportunities” this year, and they span the risk spectrum, Shashank Goel, assistant vice president in the transactions group at Harrison Street, wrote...
CCRC occupancy continues to outpace non-CCRCs across all care segments: NIC
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 07, 2023
Overall, the third-quarter occupancy rate for continuing care retirement communities / life plan communities continued to outpace that of non-CCRCs across all care segments, according to recent analysis...
Federal judge blocks enforcement of noncompete final rule for some employers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 09, 2024
A federal judge has issued a stay and preliminary injunction that will block enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission’s final rule on noncompete agreements for some employers.
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...
Most FCA recoveries related to healthcare, attorney says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 29, 2024
The Justice Department recovered a record-breaking amount of settlements and judgments from False Claims Act cases last year, and most of those cases were related to healthcare cases — “like they...
Access to capital expected to remain even in 2024, experts say
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 14, 2024
Attendees of a Tuesday webinar were split fairly evenly in their views of whether access and cost of capital would be similar to 2023 or better.
Policymakers, providers must take steps to prevent staff mass turnover, researchers say
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 29, 2024
Employment levels in the skilled nursing industry are lagging compared with other parts of the healthcare continuum, noted the authors of a study published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical...
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.
Welltower codifies ESG initiatives in formal policy
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 28, 2024
Welltower has formalized its environmental, social and governance commitment in a board-approved ESG policy, according to the Toledo, OH-based real estate investment trust’s annual ESG report, released...
CCRC ratings unlikely to be affected by SNF staffing mandates: Fitch
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 21, 2023
The minimum staffing rule that most nursing homes will be required to meet within the next three years will add to staffing pressures at continuing care retirement / life plan communities, but it will...