CMS proposal would be ‘major financial burden’ for CCRCs, residents, organizations say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 17, 2020
A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regulation effectively proposing new Medicaid taxes could “lead to a major financial burden” for continuing care retirement communities and residents —...
27 members of Congress urge CMS to withdraw proposed Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 14, 2020
A bipartisan coalition of 27 members of the House of Representatives is asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to withdraw its proposed Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation.
CMS should withdraw Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation, AHCA/NCAL says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 31, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should withdraw the proposed Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation because, if finalized, it would jeopardize access to care and “cripple” Medicaid...
CareTrust REIT: Fewer ‘meaningful opportunities’ in senior housing
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 24, 2020
“There are plenty of assisted living and memory care deals out there right now, but most don’t fit with our or our operators’ objectives. So meaningful opportunities for us in that asset class...
NHI CEO: ‘Not out of the woods’ with senior housing
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 21, 2020
National Health Investors is “in much better shape as we enter 2020” compared with 2019, which the Murfreesboro, TN-based real estate investment trust started “in a much more defensive posture than...
LTC invests $82 million so far this year, CEO says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 02, 2016
“LTC had a quiet but active first half of the year,” the REIT’s chair, CEO and president, Wendy Simpson, told participants in a second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday. LTC Properties...
Assisted living three times less likely than nursing homes to receive bad reviews
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 12, 2018
Assisted living communities garner far fewer negative reviews than do nursing homes, according to a look at “hundreds of thousands” of reviews.
Ombudsman rule doesn’t go far enough, group says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 07, 2016
A newly effective federal rule should improve efficiency and consistency in state long-term care ombudsman programs as intended, but it doesn’t go far enough, maintains one organization representing...
Top senior living concerns are recruiting, retaining, paying, survey says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 12, 2018
Staffing and labor issues by far are the biggest concerns of senior living chief financial officers responding to a recent poll by specialty investment bank Ziegler.
M&A hit 2017 low in third quarter
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 10, 2017
Seniors housing and care merger and acquisition activity in the third quarter was the lowest of any quarter in the year so far, according to a new report.