The LaSalle Group, a Dallas-based developer, announced that its has broken ground on its third specialized Alzheimer’s and Memory Care Assisted Living Community in the Houston area, Autumn Leaves of Cypresswood, in Spring, TX. Autumn Leaves of Cypresswood is scheduled to be completed and accepting residents by late Spring 2011. The property will feature 38 [...]

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced $19.5 million in grants last week to help convert existing multifamily projects into assisted living facility for the elderly.  The projects, located in Arizona, Maryland, New York and Ohio, will be funded through HUD’s Assisted Living Conversion Program and are awarded on competitive basis. "These grants [...]

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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 [...]

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Remember Spike Lee’s “It’s the Shoes” commercial featuring Michael Jordan?  Those shoes were special because everyone wanted to Be Like Mike.  Today, everyone wants to be safe, especially those caring for persons with Alzheimer’s disease.  By embedding a part of a Personal Emergency Response Monitoring System (PERS) in a shoe (rather than a phone/device), the [...]

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Cirrus Group and its joint development partner McFarlin Group have announced the recent ground breaking on a new senior assisted living and Alzheimer’s community in McKinney, Texas for people needing living assistance and those living with the challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia.  The $14 million community named Orchard Park of McKinney is anticipated to [...]

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Immanuel Lutheran Corporation (ILC) recently announced $10 million expansion of its current campus that will add a 16 bed, cottage-style rehabilitative building and therapy center, new assisted living suites and is expected to be completed in Fall 2011.  The current community  is made up of 70 independent living units, 30 assisted living units and 155 [...]

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Are sleep problems a sign of declining quality of life?  A study of residents of Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) in Los Angeles showed that 65% had clinically significant sleeping problems and that poor sleep was associated with declining quality of life and increased depression over a six month follow-up period. The study, published in the [...]

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Kindred Healthcare, Inc. ("Kindred")(NYSE:KND) recently announced the acquisition of a nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living facility in the Cleveland, Ohio market and the opening of a new freestanding long-term acute care ("LTAC") hospital in the Houston, Texas market.

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Lancaster Pollard recently announced the closing on an $11.7 million financing to build a 63-unit assisted living facility at Tabitha Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Lincoln, Neb. Tabitha is the first nonprofit to finance new construction under the streamlined HUD LEAN processing system of the Federal Housing Administration’s Section 232 mortgage insurance program for senior [...]

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Health Dimensions Group (HDG) recently acquired St. Paul-based Health Service Innovations (HSI) to expand HDG’s presence in the senior-living and post-acute healthcare market.  The acquisition broadens its scope of services and now manages and operates 27 health care properties. For more than a decade, HSI has provided high-level management and consulting solutions to nursing homes, [...]

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Abingdon at Tradition, an all-inclusive, luxury retirement community in Port St. Lucie, Florida that opened its doors in December 2009, celebrated its grand opening last week.  For the first time since its ground-breaking ceremony, the retirement community located in the master-planned town of Tradition showcased all of its offerings – from freshly constructed cottages and [...]

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Willow Towers, a not-for-profit luxury Assisted Living Residence in New Rochelle, New York, and part of the United Hebrew of New Rochelle’s campus of senior services, announced the receipt of the new Assisted Living Residence (ALR) licensure, with dual certification for Enhanced Assisted Living Residence (EALR) and Special Needs Assisted Living Residence (SNALR) by the [...]

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