‘Devastating’: Provider shutters SNF to save assisted living, memory care business
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 15, 2020
As senior living and other long-term care providers speak out about the financial crisis they are experiencing due to the pandemic, one provider is sharing his story about the decision to close a five-star...
Nurse charged with felony elder abuse in death of assisted living resident
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 22, 2021
A nurse providing care to a former California assisted living resident was charged with felony elder abuse for failing to properly assess the woman’s failing health, ultimately leading to her death,...
Pilot program works to develop HCBS quality measures that reflect beneficiary preferences
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 05, 2024
Decisions about funding, service provision and policy when it comes to Medicaid home- and community-based services may not always reflect the needs of the people it affects most, particularly older adults...
Bill targets price-gouging, anti-competitive practices by temporary staffing agencies
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 26, 2023
Tennessee soon will join other states in reining in questionable business practices of temporary healthcare staffing agencies and their effects on assisted living communities and other types of long-term...
Assisted living communities left out of state COVID-19 testing, data initiatives
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 19, 2020
Associations representing assisted living operators are calling attention to the fact that in some states, assisted living communities are being left out of testing and data initiatives.
Care, training improvements coming so ‘tragic events…never happen again’
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 10, 2023
Some Colorado assisted living providers are under an unflattering spotlight from an article in the general media, but a senior living advocate tells McKnight’s Senior Living that the industry already...
People in the news, March 31
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 31, 2020
Appointments and other news at Cushman & Wakefield, Kendal Corp., McKesson and Sabra Health Care REIT.
McKnight’s Women of Distinction Hall of Honor gains 21 in 2023
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 16, 2023
Twenty-one women are being announced today as 2023 inductees into the McKnight’s Women of Distinction Hall of Honor.
Senior living community not cited, but two years later, executives charged in resident’s death
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 25, 2017
The owner and former administrator of a California senior living community have been charged with elder abuse and involuntary manslaughter, felonies, more than two years after a resident reported to have...
People in the news, May 7
May 07, 2019
Appointments, promotions and other personnel news at Affinity Living Group, Atlas Senior Living, Benchmark Senior Living, Capitol Seniors Housing, Five Star Senior Living, HCP, Integral Senior Living,...