The Pennsylvania Department of Aging last week announced a nutrition services grant to help members of the Nationalities Service Center Senior Center tend their community garden in North Philadelphia. The center, which opened in 1986, older immigrants and refugees from Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq and other countries, as well as people born in the [...]
The Senate passed the Dodd-Frank Regulatory Reform Bill and is sending it to the President later this week for his signature but that will be just the beginning of how the new law will affect consumer finance. The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been tasked with authority to regulate and enable safe guards to [...]
Hollenbach Construction, Inc. recently announced the recent groundbreaking on the Villa at Fleetwood, a three-story, 124-unit congregate-care and assisted-living facility located Blandon, Pennsylvania. The Villa at Fleetwood will feature studio, 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom, month-to-month rental units that will include two meals served daily in the dining room, activities, housekeeping, transportation to local outings and many [...]
Should Congress have the authority to mandate features and functionality of devices with screens that connect to the Internet? Apparently so based upon a new bill being circulated on the Hill known as the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009, or H.R. 3101. The language of the bill aims to make manufacturers [...]
Carlyle Group and TPG Capital agreed Monday to acquire Australia’s Healthscope for for $2 Billion. Healthscope is Australia’s second largest hospital operator in the country with 43 private hospitals and owns 45 medical clinics and operates pathology services in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
GreenFields of Geneva, a $50 million Life Care community, will hold its groundbreaking ceremony next Monday, July 19 in Geneva, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The 26 acre facility located in Kane County will have 147 one and two bedroom apartment homes with views of Tanna Farms Golf Course and access to 17 miles of [...]
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Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. (NYSE: SKH) announced that it has agreed to a stipulation with the parties of the lawsuit in Humbolt County that was previously announced last week. Pursuant to the stipulation, the parties have agreed to stay all proceedings in the litigation to pursue mediation and is subject to court approval. from the [...]
Senior Star Living announced that it has completed a long-term agreement with Toledo-based Health Care REIT, Inc. (NYSE: HCN) to lease and operate the senior living community formerly known as The Stratford at Kenwood. The 288-unit community, located on the bluffs of the Ohio River Valley in Northeast Cincinnati, provides a full continuum of care [...]
