Kauhale Health Teams with Senior Living Vet Riso to Drive ‘Sizable’ Investments, Scale 

Kauhale Health announced that senior living veteran Torey Riso will play a central role as the organization looks to scale its senior living operations. Kauhale Health has a portfolio of two senior living communities, one of which it owns and the other that it manages. But the Westerville, Ohio-based health care platform is planning to […]

With First Chief Experience Officer, Lutheran Senior Services Turns Focus to Growth, Wellness

Senior living nonprofit Lutheran Senior Services (LSS) has hired its first-ever chief experience officer in a move meant to help to elevate its future offerings for residents. The St. Louis-based organization sees the future of aging services as shifting away from health care and toward wellness — and President and CEO Adam Marles believes that […]

Inside 4 Metrics Pointing to Future for Life Plan Communities

Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) have weathered Covid-19 from a relatively good position over the last couple of years — but looking ahead, there are questions as to whether that trend will continue. Widespread cost inflation has pushed CCRC and life plan community operators to get creative to maintain margins, continue unit turnover as steadily […]

Pine Park Health Expands Value-Based Care Model, With Affordable Housing a Target

Pine Park Health is expanding its value-based health care model further into the affordable senior housing sector. Pine Park Health Chief Commercial Officer Dan O’Neill announced last week on LinkedIn that the company has expanded its value-based, in-home primary care model to serve nearly 400 more residents in Northern California. Pine Park currently operates in […]

Non-Profit Operators Keep ‘Grow or Die’ Mindset Despite Construction, Labor Hurdles

A majority of non-profit senior living operators are sticking to their growth plans, even as workforce shortages and construction pressures continue to make doing so complicated. According to Ziegler’s CFO Hotline report for August, 58% of non-profit senior living operators say they are moving forward with their growth pipelines as planned this year. The report, […]

Average Salary for Executive Directors of CCRCs Exceeds $190K

Average salaries for executive directors at continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) has grown almost 3.8% in 2022, with other community positions seeing even larger increases. That’s according to the 25th annual CCRC Salary & Benefits Report from Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS). The latest report, which HCS published with the endorsement of industry association […]

Best CCRC Lite Design of 2021: A Sprawling Community Open to the Public

Executives and design partners involved with the development of The Holbrook of Woodstock knew they wanted a concept that could disrupt senior living norms while finding new ways of approaching amenities. The Holbrook at Woodstock is a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) on a sprawling 20-acre site in suburban Atlanta that incorporates 300 independent living, […]

Life Plan Community Occupancy Hit 85.7% in 4Q, Continuing Covid Rebound

Average occupancy for life plan communities rose to 85.7% in the fourth quarter of 2021, representing a gain of 1.4 percentage points from pandemic lows seen in the first two quarters of last year. But despite the rebound in occupancy, life plan communities still have more occupancy to regain before the sector is back to […]

Mather CEO Leary: ‘Remarkable’ Data Supports New Senior Living Wellness Paradigm

Despite the challenges posed by Covid-19, independent living residents of life plan communities maintained their wellbeing to a remarkable extent last year. That’s according to Mather CEO Mary Leary, who spoke with Senior Housing News about the latest findings from the longitudinal Age Well Study, released this week. “The findings showed that residents, on average, […]

Mather Launches New Senior Living Wellness Model, Aims for Widespread Industry Adoption

An influential senior living provider and research organization is introducing a new wellness model, with hopes that the approach will gain traction throughout the sector and better attract and serve a rising generation of older adults. The “person-centric wellness model” was developed by Mather, a non-denominational, non-profit organization based near Chicago in Evanston, Illinois. Mather […]