As an administrator at The Meadows of Central Massachusetts, an 82-bed transitional care facility that provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation, Stephen Fortin is familiar with today’s staffing issues in health care settings. For six years, Fortin has consulted with nearly two dozen nursing homes, providing a range of actionable items they can implement to improve […]
Talk to senior living operators about their challenges in 2023 and one area bound to come up is memory care. According to the 2022 Alzheimer’s Association Facts and Figures report, one in every three seniors will die with Alzheimer’s or another dementia. And there is even more data from the 2022 Alzheimer’s Association Facts and […]
The global COVID-19 pandemic challenged senior living and long-term care owners and operators to manage health, financial and operational risks at a scale the industry has never before experienced. And while the industry must continue to remain vigilant of pandemic risks, Michael Pokora, leader of Marsh’s Senior Living & LTC Industry Practice, stresses that three […]
The lumber was too expensive. The operator knew it. Their general contractor and construction partner, Brinkmann Constructors, knew it too. They had planned and priced a new community, and by the time they were ready to get started, the cost of lumber had quadrupled, pushing them out of budget. So Brinkmann and the operator got […]
“Staffing agencies suck.” That’s a marketing tagline for staffing solution KARE, and it’s as bold as they come. But they did not write it. Their senior living clients did. “It’s really something we started to hear when we started the company, and we would reach out to communities and try to explain what we were […]
This article is sponsored by Accushield. In this Voices interview, Senior Housing News sits down with Ben Fairless, Director of Inside Sales of Accushield, to learn how his experience in hospitality as a property manager has influenced his approach to senior living. Fairless also shares the next step of Accushield’s work with its Reputation Accelerator […]
This article is sponsored by Brinkmann Constructors. In this Voices interview, Senior Housing News sits down with Brinkmann Vice President Brett Goodman to learn how operators can keep projects in budget despite inflation. The key to the Brinkmann strategy: Always ask “what if?” Senior Housing News: Brett, what life and career experiences do you most […]
Each second of each day in the United States, an older adult falls. And as the aging population grows, so will the number of falls and the related cost of care. Those figures are already massive, and they’re only growing. Falls cost our health system $50 billion a year, but by 2030, with 72 million […]
Your caregivers need their own internet network. So do your residents. Your visitors do too, if possible. And certainly, so does corporate. For the best health outcomes mixed with overall business success, senior living operators must have strong, reliable and secure networks for all stakeholders to use. The signs of whether they do frequently come […]
When Sonida Senior Living needed to boost its website traffic and convert more digital leads to move ins, it turned to one place and one place only. FURTHER. A respected leader in AI-powered sales assistants, FURTHER’s aim is to help operators increase occupancy by increasing not just web traffic, but the strategic engagements with that […]
Subscribe
Receive industry updates and breaking news from SHN