Ventas plans to expand senior living footprint, building on ‘unprecedented’ growth opportunity
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 03, 2024
Ventas is benefiting from the “unprecedented” multi-year senior living growth opportunity that continues to gain traction and is committed to expanding its footprint in senior living in the coming...
Policy initiatives underway to lessen direct care workforce shortages
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 29, 2024
Direct care workforce shortages strain the healthcare system overall and affect access, quality and costs. Although no single answer to the issue exists, several policy initiatives and solutions underway...
Industry operator lends expertise to new senior living management degree program
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 07, 2020
A Florida senior living company is partnering with the University of Central Florida to launch a scholarship program for a new undergraduate degree in senior living management.
Provider faces lawsuit over resident’s freezing death as assisted living industry finds itself on the...
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 25, 2024
The family of a woman with dementia who wandered outside of her memory care unit and froze to death is suing the community for negligence in failing to prevent her death.
Assisted living accounts for plurality of acquisitions in second quarter
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 18, 2023
Assisted living accounted for 42% of the publicly announced senior living and care acquisitions in the second quarter, according to newly released data from LevinPro LTC. The percentage was equal to the...
More news for Thursday, Feb. 23
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 23, 2023
Idaho bill criminalizes administration of mRNA vaccines … Digital transformation improves productivity at CCRC … Assisted living community sued over drowning death of 93-year-old resident … $10K...
More news for Monday, Jan. 22
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 22, 2024
Boosting CNA workforce is focus of state association campaign … Tracking conditions in older adults may help ID those at risk of cognitive impairment … Hackers stole $7.5M from HHS, leaving grant recipients...
Talent development program targets current employees for leadership roles
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 22, 2023
As the senior living industry struggles to create a workforce pipeline to meet the growing care needs of older adults, one provider looked inward to its “abundance of rock stars” to provide advancement...
‘Living wage’ would benefit 75 percent of direct care workforce: LeadingAge report
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 23, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the role of the country’s 3.5 million direct care workers on the front lines of the public health crisis, but those workers are undervalued and face barriers...
People in the news, Jan. 12
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 12, 2021
Appointments, promotions and news at Acts Retirement–Life Communities, Ascension Living, Carmel Valley Manor, CareOne, Cypress Living, Discovery Senior Living, Erickson Living, the Fountains in Calhoun,...