Advance planning and dedicated staff members and residents helped Westminster Oaks in Tallahassee, FL, get through some trying days and nights after Hurricane Hermine came through earlier this month, the...
Senior living operators rally for California fire victims
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 12, 2018
As the damage and death toll from the Camp Fire and other fires in California continue to grow, senior living operators are trying to help one another through monetary and other assistance.
Senior living residents evacuated as construction site explosion kills 1, injures 12
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 27, 2018
A Texas healthcare system has evacuated its senior living and long-term care residents as well as hospital patients after an on-site explosion Tuesday afternoon killed one construction worker and injured...
1 death, 2 injuries, 1 resident suspect in senior housing fire and shooting
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 26, 2018
One resident has been arrested and another has been hospitalized, and one firefighter has died and another has been released from the hospital, after an explosion, fire and shooting Monday at a California...
CCRC didn’t enforce no-smoking policy, so four died in fire, lawsuit says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 15, 2018
The daughter of a husband and wife who died in the five-alarm fire at Barclay Friends in November filed a civil lawsuit against the West Chester, PA, continuing care retirement community on Tuesday, claiming...
Senior living community takes precautions after two Legionnaires’ cases found
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 14, 2016
A four-month-old senior living community in Maryland is taking precautionary measures after two residents were found to have Legionnaires’ disease. The experience may prove informative to other communities...
Arbitration agreements, resident actions mean wildfire lawsuit should be tossed, operator says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 28, 2018
The existence of arbitration agreements is one of 34 reasons that a lawsuit alleging that a senior living community abandoned residents during an October wildfire should not proceed, according to the community...
4 residents presumed dead after Pennsylvania CCRC fire as Idaho operator recovers from a blaze
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 21, 2017
Four residents of a Pennsylvania retirement community remained missing Monday and were presumed dead after a five-alarm fire at the community that began Thursday. Across the country in Idaho, another senior...
CCRC ‘deeply distressed’ that main sprinkler valve appears to have been off during fatal fire
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 05, 2019
The executive director of a Pennsylvania continuing care retirement community where four residents died in a November 2017 fire said the provider was “deeply distressed” that investigators, according...
The 4 top safety concerns in senior care — and how to address them
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 19, 2018
A new report from the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety describes the top four security and safety concerns in assisted living communities, skilled nursing facilities and CCRCs,...