Identifying highest-risk assisted living communities key to tackling next outbreak: report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 22, 2024
The public health response to COVID-19 in assisted living communities in New York highlights the need to identify those communities at highest risk of infectious disease outbreaks to provide necessary...
More news for Friday, May 5
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 05, 2023
Season of Reflection is 2023 theme for National Assisted Living Week … Most older adults say they will get updated COVID-19 booster, but will they? … First-ever RSV vaccine gets FDA nod, approved for...
More news for Friday, May 14
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 14, 2021
Florida launches generator status dashboard to show status of on-site generators in assisted living … California assisted living operator pays $159K in back pay over labor law violations … Pennsylvania...
More news for Tuesday, Nov. 8
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 08, 2022
Sabra Health Care REIT to move 24 North American Health Care properties to Ensign, Avamere … Welltower to move 147 ProMedica SNFs to Integra Health JV … Former owner permanently barred from operating...
Business of long-term care ‘has never been worse’ as occupancy, staffing challenges continue
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 12, 2022
NASHVILLE, TN — With the clinical issues of COVID-19 largely behind the long-term care industry, the business side “has never been worse,” according to American Health Care Association / National...
More news for Friday, March 24
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 24, 2023
Benchmark, Springpoint, Lasell Village join Age-Friendly Employer list … County nursing home considers adding assisted living, worker housing to keep doors open … Master’s degree designed to meet...
More news for Friday, Jan. 27
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 27, 2023
Headwinds may stall CCRC recovery, Fitch Ratings says … Turnover rates among assisted living staff hold steady for most operators: report … FDA advisory committee votes on proposed COVID-19 vaccine...
Assisted living industry reiterates need for $10 billion in COVID-19 relief
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 22, 2022
Argentum reiterated its message about $10 billion in aid being needed by assisted living operators to Congress on Thursday.
More news for Friday, June 18
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 18, 2021
Massachusetts man convicted in attempted arson of Jewish-sponsored assisted living community … Bill extending pandemic health services benefits assisted living communities … Florida no longer tracking...
CDC program expands free COVID-19 testing to assisted living
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 08, 2022
Assisted living communities now have access to free COVID-19 testing through a federal program that previously targeted schools, shelters and correctional facilities.