AlerisLife looks to expand business lines in new year: CEO
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 25, 2022
Ringing in the new year with a new name, AlerisLife marked the fourth quarter of 2021 and first quarter of 2022 with new collaborations and partnerships that executives said were aimed at enhancing the...
Senior living coalition calls on Congress to address workforce crisis
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 20, 2022
A coalition of senior living advocacy groups is calling on congressional leaders to build and train the workforce needed now — and into the future — to care for the nation’s rapidly growing aging...
Some barriers to entry remain, but new CMS payment model gives a boost to home dialysis
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Diane Eastabrook
Mar 08, 2021
Home dialysis increased 180% in nine months for patients of a Roanoke, VA, nephrology group. But Valley Nephrology Associates said it took a robust educational effort and an all-hands-on-deck approach...
Argentum announces apprenticeship, workforce data service and more
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 17, 2019
The first-ever national apprenticeship for nursing assistants and other caregivers in senior living and a new data service to help operators with their staffing plans were among the announcements Tuesday...
As Enlivant recovers from pandemic, Sabra to decide whether to exit portfolio, CEO says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 24, 2021
Sabra Health Care REIT will make a decision about its joint venture with TPG Real Estate, through which it has a 49% stake in a portfolio of dozens of Enlivant senior living communities, later this year,...
Restructuring pays off with limited long-term cash flow downside, Omega CEO says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 03, 2022
Hunt Valley, MD-based Omega Healthcare Investors saw sequential improvement in both adjusted funds from operations and funds available for distribution during the second quarter, CEO Taylor Pickett said...
Assisted living occupancy inches up in third quarter
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 12, 2017
Occupancy in assisted living communities averaged 86.6% during the third quarter, up 0.2 percentage point from the second quarter, when it had fallen to its lowest point ever for the second time in 11...
Money put to good use
By
John Hall
Dec 01, 2016
Operators are investing capital to improve living environments for residents.
People in the news, Oct. 18
Oct 18, 2016
Appointments, promotions and awards involving Arbor Acres United Methodist Retirement Community, Brookdale Senior Living, Integral Senior Living, Jefferson’s Ferry, National Lutheran Communities...
Technology, advocacy required to empower workers in LTC, healthcare’s ‘hardest setting’
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 21, 2024
Most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics so skilled nursing and senior living leaders are both going back to the basics and seizing on innovation.