A growing number of professional associations are calling for COVID-19 vaccination requirements for healthcare workers, but at least one major organization is pumping the brakes on calling for an industry-wide mandate for long-term care.
The Sioux Falls, SD-based Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society is the latest senior living and care organization — and one of the largest yet — to mandate COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment.
The longtime president and CEO of Good Samaritan parent company Sanford Health has “parted ways” with the healthy system after some dubious remarks he made about mask-wearing amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
When specialty investment bank Ziegler released the top 10 largest not-for-profit multi-site senior living organizations on the 2020 LeadingAge Ziegler 200 list on Friday, four companies kept their same positions, five others stayed in the top 10 but changed positions, and one company was replaced compared with 2019.
A sense of purpose has guided David J. Horazdovsky since he joined the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society in 1978.
Employees at the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society are receiving a boost in their April paychecks in response to the financial challenges many are facing amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
After releasing a “sneak peek” at the top 10 providers in September, LeadingAge and Ziegler have released the full LeadingAge Ziegler 200 compilation of the country’s largest not-for-profit senior living multi-site organizations, government-subsidized housing multi-sites and single campuses.
Updating the disaster preparedness plan may not be the first order of business that comes to mind when contemplating an affiliation with another organization. But it’s an issue Sioux Falls, SD-based Sanford Health had to confront when Hurricane Dorian recently threatened Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society communities in Florida.
Brentwood, TN-based Brookdale Senior Living tops the 2019 ASHA 50 list of largest U.S. senior housing operators, and Toledo, OH-based real estate investment trust Welltower tops this year’s ASHA 50 list of largest owners.
As much of the country prepared for a long Labor Day weekend, senior living operators in Florida and nearby states were preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Dorian.
