Second-quarter senior housing occupancy rate is lowest on record, NIC says
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 10, 2020
Senior housing occupancy in the second quarter was at the lowest level on record since the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care began reporting data in 2006, NIC said Thursday. Individually,...
Senior housing occupancy falls 1.1 percent in April, and May could see ‘pretty significant impact,’...
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Lois A. Bowers
May 20, 2020
Occupancy in senior housing fell 1.1% to 88.7% in April, according to data released Tuesday by the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care. The rate was 1% lower than the prior year, NIC...
Senior housing occupancy stable and ‘moving in the right direction’
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 12, 2019
The occupancy rate for senior housing across the United States in the first quarter of 2019 increased 0.1 percentage point from the previous quarter, to 88.1%, according to data released Thursday by the...
Best and worst markets for seniors housing occupancy
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 11, 2016
Seniors housing operators and investors will want to look beyond what is occurring nationally to what is happening in local markets, says NIC’s chief economist.
Senior living occupancy increases for third quarter in a row, led by assisted living
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 08, 2022
Occupancy in senior living communities in the first quarter increased for the third quarter in a row, according to NIC MAP data released Thursday afternoon related to the 31 primary markets that NIC MAP...
Building back occupancy will be a balancing act: speakers
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 25, 2022
However long it takes, the process of building back occupancy will take new approaches, according to speakers at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Spring Conference.
Brookdale sees 10 months of occupancy growth, sets labor, occupancy goals for 2022
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Lois A. Bowers
Feb 16, 2022
Entering 2022 having experienced 10 months of sequential weighted average occupancy growth, Brentwood, TN-based Brookdale Senior Living has identified strategies to improve occupancy further as well as...
CCRC occupancy inches up to 85.7 percent in fourth quarter
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Lois A. Bowers
Feb 03, 2022
Life plan community occupancy was 85.7% in the fourth quarter of 2021, up 0.3 percentage points from the third quarter and 1.4 percentage points from a pandemic low seen in the first two quarters of the...
Five Star Senior Living rebrands as AlerisLife, plans to diversify offerings
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 26, 2022
Newton, MA-based Five Star Senior Living has changed its name to AlerisLife Inc. effective immediately, the company announced this morning along with plans to expand its offerings to include active adult...
5 items for senior living’s 2022 to-do list
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 10, 2022
The leaders of five organizations active in the senior living space recently shared with me their insights on the biggest challenges facing the industry. Culled from their comments is a list of action...