As senior living design increases focus on accommodating the preferences of both today’s and tomorrow’s consumer, the days of the “institutional” nursing home are dwindling. Developers of the Wellbrooke of Westfield, a skilled nursing and assisted living community in Indiana that took top marks in the first-ever Senior Housing Design Awards 2013, realized this paradigm […]
Category: Assisted Living
Planned Vermont CCRC to Build $10 Million Expansion The Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community, a continuing care retirement community located in Windsor, Vermont, announced this week its plans to build a $10.6 million addition. The 42,000-square-foot, two-level building addition will house a 20-bed memory care unit and will also double the community’s capacity of its […]
A New Jersey assisted living community will go to auction later this week, after being foreclosed upon by the state housing and mortgage finance authority more than a year ago. Paragon Village, located about 50 miles west of New York City in Mount Olive, New Jersey, has maintained private ownership since its opening in 2001, […]
Assisted living residents in New Jersey cannot use an existing state law that protects nursing home residents to file suit against providers, a federal court recently ruled. The case Andreyko v. Sunrise Senior Living Inc. (No. 12-7240) ruled that the New Jersey Nursing Home Responsibilities & Rights Act (NHRRRA) does not cover assisted living communities […]
A California county is preparing to crack down on assisted living communities that don’t maintain certain care standards. A special prosecution unit may be developed for San Diego County, Supervisor Dianne Jacob announced during a “State of the County” address last week. Jacob called for bolstering the county’s role in monitoring the local assisted living […]
The ingredients to develop the next generation of senior living may include one part senior housing developer, one part local hospital and one part wellness organization. That’s the recipe for a Midwest partnership planning to construct a $60 million integrated care campus that will blend senior housing with primary and post-acute care within an intergenerational […]
Assisted Living Guru is preparing to launch its referral services nationwide, but for now has its sights concentrated in select metro areas. The company’s site allows consumers to browse assisted living as well as various other senior living options in their local areas. Apart from assisted living, the site also offers users to search for […]
Fears of overdevelopment in senior housing—to tweak the words of Elvis Presley—appear to be a little more conversation and a lot less action, according to analysts following a senior housing conference in Miami this week. While many investors in the senior housing space might be concerned by the threat of new development, a current balance […]
In case you missed it, here are the top five stories grabbing Senior Housing News readers’ attention this week: Caring.com Announces 2014′s Top-Rated Assisted Living Communities—Caring.com announced its annual best-of assisted living based and memory care communities; this year naming 405 communities to its list of “Caring Stars.” Holiday New Integrated Media Campaign Provides Big Boost […]
Construction: Planned Granger Group Plans $25 Million Senior Living Community The Granger Group, a real estate developer based in Wyoming, Michicgan, announced it will build a $25 million, 130-unit senior living community on the campus of Metro Health Village, reports MLive. Plans for the four-story building include 70 independent living units, 40 assisted living and […]
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