‘Not just a nursing home issue’: COVID a challenge in affordable senior housing: LeadingAge survey
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 22, 2020
Close to 60% of nonprofit senior housing providers surveyed by LeadingAge reported confirmed COVID-19 cases in their communities, raising concerns about the more than 2.5 million low-income older adults...
Spending at CCRCs highest in eight years
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 27, 2016
Capital spending at continuing care retirement / life plan communities is at its highest level since 2008, according to a new report by Fitch Ratings.
How sales enablement can speed up move-ins
By
Sharon Muniz
Feb 22, 2018
A proactive, always-evolving sales enablement process will go a long way in differentiating your community and services while helping you achieve your core business and care goals.
OSHA can issue COVID-19 healthcare standard on its own timeline: courts
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 30, 2022
The federal government can issue a permanent COVID-19 healthcare standard on its own timeline after an appellate court ruled against a group of unions hoping to expedite the process.
Brookdale keeps COVID cases under 1% but sees occupancy decline, calls for government aid
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 07, 2020
Less than 1% of residents at the country’s largest senior living operator have tested positive for COVID-19, but the virus has still affected occupancy rates, according to Brookdale Senior Living...
House Republicans: Anticipated OSHA COVID-19 rule is ‘height of foolishness’
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 05, 2022
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s anticipated COVID-19 rule for healthcare workers is the “height of foolishness,” two Republican members of the House of Representatives told OSHA...
Senior living community ‘vehemently denies’ wrongdoing, accepts consent order for violating...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 29, 2020
The operator of an independent living community in Pennsylvania has settled claims made by the U.S. Justice Department that one of its communities violated the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against...
Industry must capitalize on ‘historic moment’ of change for skilled nursing: expert
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 14, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the country’s long-term care system, particularly in skilled nursing facilities, as “deeply flawed, chronically underfunded and in need of reform,” according to...
Five Star to sell 6 communities but keep managing them
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 10, 2017
Five Star Senior Living will sell six senior living communities to Senior Housing Properties Trust for $104 million, Five Star President and CEO Bruce Mackey told those participating in a Thursday third-quarter...
‘We’ve come a long way’: LTC Properties CEO
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 02, 2021
Although COVID-19 has not made for an easy road, the road is getting easier, LTC Properties Chair and CEO Wendy Simpson said Friday during a second-quarter earnings call.