Second hospice employee pleads guilty in alleged $60 million kickback scheme involving assisted living...
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 19, 2018
A second former employee of a now-defunct hospice company has pleaded guilty for her role in an alleged $60 million Medicare fraud scheme that, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern...
Assisted living is not ‘community-integrated housing,’ Justice Department says
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 18, 2018
Assisted living communities cannot be considered “community-integrated housing” for purposes of helping Louisiana comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act in serving people with serious...
Judge rules for Montana providers, but health department doesn’t take action
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 18, 2018
Montana health officials on Friday remained unsure what course of action they would take, two days after a judge ordered them to reinstate last year’s Medicaid reimbursement rates for assisted living...
Long-term care dominates May real estate deals
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 18, 2018
Senior living and skilled nursing accounted for almost one-third of the healthcare-related real estate deals announced or closed in May, according to a new list compiled for Bloomberg Law.
Several ways exist to increase your organization’s LGBT cultural competency
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 18, 2018
Senior living communities can express or strengthen their support for issues of importance to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older adults through training and other means. A new ad will be a conversation...
AMA supports incentives to expand home- and community-based services
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 15, 2018
States should be incentivized to expand the availability of and access to home- and community-based services, the American Medical Association House of Delegates said in a policy it adopted at its recent...
CCRC didn’t enforce no-smoking policy, so four died in fire, lawsuit says
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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...
Wages complicate housing for senior living workers: report
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 15, 2018
Senior living communities and long-term care facilities employ workers in job categories that are expected to be among the fastest-growing types over the next 10 years, according to projections from the...
Two paths to higher occupancy, per NIC
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 14, 2018
Two paths can help senior living operators prevent occupancy from dropping any further, according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care.
Former senior living employee could face decades in prison for stealing resident IDs
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 14, 2018
A former employee of a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community in Illinois is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 18 after pleading guilty to using residents’ personal information to obtain...