Partnership for Patients is set to contract out up to $500 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to accomplish the organization’s mission to improve the quality, safety, and affordability of health care for Americans. HHS says the Partnership’s funding is meant to help hospitals and health care provider organizations, among others, […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is cracking down on Medicare Fraud through its July 1 implementation of innovative predictive modeling technology. CMS says the technology is similar to that used by credit card companies and will help to identify potentially fraudulent Medicare claims on a nationwide basis, and stop them before they’re […]
Renovations are more than 80% complete on Ascension Manor, an affordable housing community for seniors and the disabled in North Philadelphia, Pa. The Ukrainian Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia owns the community and recently hosted an open house where neighbors, local businesses, community leaders, and church members could see the progress on the facility. The Archdiocese […]
Partnership for Patients is set to contract out up to $500 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to accomplish the organization’s mission to improve the quality, safety, and affordability of health care for Americans. HHS says the Partnership’s funding is meant to help hospitals and health care provider organizations, among others, […]
Canada’s Economic Action Plan is providing funding for a local senior housing initiative with approval from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the Saskatchewan Housing Corporation (SHC). Located in Swift Current, Prairie Pioneers Independent Housing Inc. will develop the 24-unit housing project, intended for low-income seniors. David Anderson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural […]
Construction has begun on a new senior care facility for Tockwotton Home, which is expanding and relocating from Providence to East Providence, Rhode Island. Groundbreaking for the construction comes on the heels of completing financing for the $53.2 million project. Tockwotton Home, which offers memory care, an assisted living facility, and a skilled nursing home, […]
Construction for a $35 million Springpoint Senior Living community is underway in Red Bank, New Jersey, and the need for senior housing is clear as nearly all of the building’s 60 units have already been spoken for. The construction will be an addition to the already-existent The Atrium, which features luxury continuing care retirement, assisted living […]
New York City has joined in on a national effort to become more green and sustainable, and the opening of Serviam Gardens, a 243-unit green, affordable housing development for low- and moderate-income seniors in the Bronx, is a step in that direction with its Enterprise Green Communities Criteria (EGCC) adherence. The finished, 158-unit Serviam II, […]
Hebrew Rehabilitation Center (HRC), an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, recently released a study in June demonstrating a decreased rehospitalization among senior patients following implementation of a three-point intervention method. Recent years have shown a rise in rehospitalization of seniors within 30 days of their discharge from a skilled nursing facility, says the study, and estimates […]
The president and CEO of CRL Senior Living Communities, Ari Weinberger, hopes to accelerate his company’s growth with his and new chairman Douglas Cameron’s recent acquisition of a majority stake in the company. Weinberger, who worked in real estate investment banking for the health care and senior living markets before joining CRL, is looking ahead toward […]
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