Henry Ford Village, a 1,038-bed nonprofit continuing care retirement community (CCRC), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The spectre of financial distress has loomed over the senior living industry since Covid-19 began sweeping across the United States last spring, placing providers under enormous operational and financial pressure. Providers that were strained prior to the […]
“There’s a limited number of operators that get it. And getting it means really understanding the needs of people moving into the building and creating resources to meet those needs.” That’s according to one veteran owner/operator, who spoke with Senior Housing News for this installment of “Confessions.” The goal of this series is to share […]
Welltower (NYSE: WELL), the nation’s largest owner of senior housing properties, will not be changing its strategic direction under its recently named CEO, Shankh Mitra. “Many of you have asked me if our strategy will change going forward — the answer to that question is an emphatic no,” Mitra said Thursday during the Toledo, Ohio-based […]
Jill Vitale-Aussem, the incoming CEO of Christian Living Communities (CLC), is not satisfied with the status quo in senior living. In fact, she wrote an entire book on the topic. The ideas in that book — Disrupting the Status Quo of Senior Living: A Mindshift — are rooted largely in her hospitality background, as a […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has created myriad problems for senior living providers. But these problems are not insurmountable, and companies across the industry are devising creative solutions. In this series, we’re surveying industry leaders to highlight these actionable solutions. With Covid-19 surging in markets around the country, we kick off the series by asking: How do […]
Senior living workforce challenges mounted over the course of the summer, with employee engagement falling and turnover increasing. That’s according to data gathered by Activated Insights from about 250,500 senior living and care employees. Activated Insights is the senior care division of Great Place to Work, the organization that puts together the annual Great Places […]
The fall open enrollment period for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans is now underway, and this year marks two milestones demonstrating the ongoing integration between MA and senior living. With the start of the enrollment period on Oct. 15, a group of senior living providers known as the Perennial Consortium began to enroll the first beneficiaries […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has created impediments to development, but Aegis Living is still on track to double its portfolio size within a decade. The Bellevue, Washington-based assisted living and memory care provider currently has 32 communities in operation and eight under development. So, about three communities need to be added each year for the next […]
Three big names in senior housing finance — Hunt Real Estate Capital, Lancaster Pollard and RED Capital Group — now are unified under a single brand name, Lument. The three firms were acquired individually by ORIX USA, a division of international financial services group ORIX Corporation. ORIX took full ownership of RED in 2016; acquired […]
Assisted living providers are concerned about their ability to retain federal relief funds due to changes in reporting requirements, and industry associations are urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to address the situation. Argentum and the American Seniors Housing Association on Monday sent a joint letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar regarding […]