Signature HealthCARE, LLC, a long-term healthcare facility operator based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, recently announced the company will relocate its national headquarters to Louisville, Kentucky.  The move will initially create 96 new jobs and the company will acquire a 65,630 square-foot facility, which will serve as its national headquarters including corporate management and facility [...]

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The National Senior Citizens Law Center published a report in December entitled, “To be or not to be Homebound: The Limits of States’ Discretion in Medicaid’s Coverage for Home Health Services” that examines Medicaid’s coverage for home health services.  The report looks at the home health benefit which has the unique status in the Medicaid [...]

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Emeritus Senior Living (NYSE: ESC) recently announced a partnership with online resource center Parentgiving.com to launch the First Annual Parentgivers of the Year Awards. The contest invites families from across the country to nominate a selfless individual who cares for an aging adult, while also caring for their own family.  Emeritus Senior Living and Parentgiving.com [...]

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Vendome Group, publishers of Long-Term Living magazine and producers of the Environments for Aging.10 Conference, is teaming up with Partners In Health to help with the relief efforts in Haiti. The partnership is designed so that for every attendee registering for the 2010 Environments for Aging Conference from now until the start of the show, [...]

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Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently announced the availability of $27 million to help older individuals with chronic conditions to improve their health and reduce their use of costly medical care.These funds are made possible through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which has provided up to $650 million to HHS [...]

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AdCare Health Systems, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: ADK), an Ohio based long term care, home care and management company, recently reported that it completed a private placement of its securities that raised $2.5 million in cash to fund the Company’s growth initiatives, which include potential acquisitions of assisted living facilities and nursing homes as well as [...]

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PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PWC) Health Research Institute’s Top 10 Health Industry Issues in 2010 lists the ability to control healthcare costs as the top issue.  The issues outlined in the report span across all health industry sectors, including senior housing. “Healthcare typically lags trends in the business cycle by a year or more. While flat may be [...]

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Jarlette Health Services recently announced the company’s newest development Leacock Retirement Lodge to be situated on the neighboring property of the existing Leacock Care Centre.  Construction of the new lodge is expected to begin in the Spring of 2010 and be completed within 18 months.  Leacock Retirement Lodge will be a four story building with [...]

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One thing Congress agrees on in the health care reform bill is that long-term care insurance is a good idea.  The CLASS Act, or Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act is part of both versions of the current reform bill being worked on in Washington, DC.  The proposed program would create a voluntary long-term [...]

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A new Eljay LLC analysis of the nation’s Medicaid financing system projecting states will cumulatively under fund the actual cost of providing quality long term care by nearly $4.7 billion for 2009, and finds seniors in the states of New York, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Florida, California and Wisconsin will bear the [...]

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Edgewood Retirement Community recently announced its new Cognitive Impairment Program called The Garden Path.   The new program, beginning in January 2010 and accepting resident inquires now, is part of The Meadows at Edgewood, a skilled nursing center which already features short-term rehabilitation services (which Edgewood will be further enhancing in Spring 2010) as well as [...]

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The MetLife Mature Institute (MMI) recently released a new survey that shows that most Americans know what long-term care is and how much it costs, but their scores fall short regarding how many people will need it and how they will pay for it.  The MetLife Long-Term Care IQ Survey, taken by 1,021 individuals aged [...]

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