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Actions & Transactions, Jan. 31
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 31, 2024
Sagora Senior Living welcomes Florida community to portfolio … Health Dimensions Group opens first senior living community in Maumelle, AR … Blueprint facilitates sale of Dayton, OH, SNF
Interest in senior living and care investments remains strong: report
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 14, 2024
Interest in senior living community and nursing home investments remains strong as operators continue to rebound from pandemic-related losses, according to JLL’s seventh annual Seniors Housing and Care...
Kansas providers may face fee hike after audit reveals many wrongly paid cut-rate assessments
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 05, 2024
Continuing care retirement communities and nursing homes in Kansas could face additional scrutiny — and in some cases, higher fees — after a recent audit from the Kansas Medicaid inspector general’s...
Occupancy increases for assisted living, nursing homes; decreases for memory care: NIC
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 14, 2022
Assisted living and nursing homes occupancy is on the rise, but memory care communities are seeing declining occupancy, according to the latest NIC Executive Survey Insights report released Thursday.
Skilled nursing occupancy declines after two months of increases
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 05, 2022
After two months of increases, skilled nursing occupancy declined 40 basis points to 78.4% from August to September, according to the latest Skilled Nursing Monthly Report released by the National Investment...
Capital Funding Group closes $42M HUD in financing for SNFs in 2 states
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 25, 2024
Capital Funding Group announced Monday that it had closed on a HUD financing package totaling $42 million, on behalf of an unnamed “nationally recognized” borrower, for the purchase of three skilled...
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...
Nursing care has fastest-growing prices of healthcare sectors
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 20, 2023
Prices for nursing home care grew the fastest in June among the major healthcare categories, at 6.2%. Prices for home healthcare increased by 4.4%.
Most FCA recoveries related to healthcare, attorney says
By
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...