Civitas Senior Living joins providers mandating employee COVID-19 vaccination
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 22, 2021
Civitas Senior Living is the latest senior living owner and operator to announce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for employees.
Long-term care staff vaccine hesitancy: Safety, efficacy, newness, distrust top factors
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 22, 2021
Safety, efficacy and the newness of the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as distrust of the government, were among the major factors that long-term care and other healthcare workers cited as reasons for not receiving...
Business briefs for Thursday, March 18
Mar 18, 2021
Trilogy Health Services, Cinematic Health Education team up to create bridge career training program for temporary nurse aides … Walker & Dunlop helps Senior Opportunity Funds Holding Company move outside...
Lawmakers in several states propose bills to ban employers from mandating COVID-19 vaccines
By
Amy Novotney
Mar 10, 2021
Although only a handful of long-term care operators have gone the route of requiring employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine, some state legislators are working to pre-empt those mandates, according to a Washington...
‘Our communities have not closed!’ Licensing paperwork delay leads to communication headache for...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 08, 2021
“Let me assure you that our communities have not closed!” That’s the message that Loren Shook, president and CEO of Irvine-CA-based memory care provider Silverado, recently felt compelled to...
Legal experts, ethicists continue to weigh in on vaccine mandates for long-term care staff
By
Amy Novotney
Mar 08, 2021
It’s a question that has plagued senior living and skilled nursing operators since COVID-19 vaccinations first became available in December: Can and should vaccination be required for staff members?
Senior living can limit liability exposure through legal, regulatory tools: panel
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 05, 2021
As COVID-19 cases and deaths trend downward and senior living communities begin to reopen, tools are available to help mitigate their liability risk, according to a panel of experts speaking Wednesday...
To mandate or not to mandate? That is the COVID vaccination question for some senior living providers
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 18, 2021
Some senior living operators are instituting mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for employees, but others are weighing their options.
Staffer died because resident wasn’t properly screened, lawsuit alleges
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 16, 2020
A California memory care operator is being sued by the family of a 32-year-old worker who died from COVID-19 complications after the community allegedly failed to properly screen a new resident.
Brightview, Summit Vista top 2020 ‘Best Workplaces’ lists
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 10, 2020
Baltimore-based Brightview Senior Living and Taylorsville, UT-based Summit Vista top Fortune’s lists of Best Workplaces for Aging Services for 2020, Fortune and Great Place to Work announced this morning....