‘You are going to make it,’ AHCA/NCAL CEO Mark Parkinson tells long-term care providers
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 11, 2022
Long-term care is going to survive. That’s the prediction President & CEO Mark Parkinson gave Monday during the opening general session of the AHCA/NCAL Conference & Expo.
Workforce pilot partnership targets Job Corps candidates for senior living
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 13, 2023
Argentum is partnering with a training company to launch a pilot program offering senior living career opportunities to Job Corps students.
Activist shareholder announces intent to vote against long-serving Ventas board members
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 25, 2023
Continued dissatisfaction with what he called “lackluster returns” and “long-term underperformance” is leading an activist shareholder to vote against long-serving board members at Chicago-based...
Provider faces lawsuit over resident’s freezing death as assisted living industry finds itself on the...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 25, 2024
The family of a woman with dementia who wandered outside of her memory care unit and froze to death is suing the community for negligence in failing to prevent her death.
Life Care Services captures top scores in J.D. Power’s 2023 Senior Living Satisfaction Study
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 15, 2023
Life Care Services has the highest overall satisfaction scores among assisted living, memory care and independent living providers in the J.D. Power 2023 US Senior Living Satisfaction Study. Results were...
Vaccine mandate violates religious beliefs, lawsuit claims
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 20, 2022
An Alabama continuing care retirement community is facing a religious discrimination lawsuit after allegedly firing four workers who refused to comply with its COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Senior living communities are homes, not healthcare settings, Argentum tells OSHA
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 19, 2023
Senior living communities are not healthcare settings and should not be regulated as such, Argentum told the federal government Tuesday.
11 states ready to go live with Medicaid HCBS final rule as deadline approaches, CMS says
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 22, 2023
Eleven states are planning to go live under the regulations of the home- and community-based settings final rule on March 18, according to Melissa Harris, deputy director for the CMS Disabled and Elderly...
Current federal efforts targeting care economy ‘miss the mark,’ industry advocates say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 10, 2024
As a kickoff to Caregivers Month, President Biden spoke Tuesday about the “care economy” at Washington, DC’s Union Station, celebrating the contributions of care workers across the country. Senior...
Provider launches ‘self-service’ approach to sales, new membership model
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 19, 2023
An Arizona independent living provider is betting on transparent pricing models and a resident membership model to create a new approach to senior living.