A dramatic increase in business for a new startup, Cohana, suggests just how much Covid-19 has fueled interest in small home-style senior living. Based in Miramar, Florida — in the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale metro area — Cohana was founded in September 2019 by the husband and wife team of David and Jennifer Phillip. In addition to […]
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The name Avidor, translated from Hebrew, means “father of a multitude.” While there are not yet a multitude of communities, Avidor Living, the new active adult brand that Allegro Senior Living launched last year, is quickly growing in scale, with three communities in operation and two more under development, Allegro Vice President of Operations Jamie […]
Twenty-three retirement communities have reported first-time payment defaults on municipal bonds in 2020. Since 2009, the retirement sector has never before posted more than 22 defaults in a given calendar year, according to a recently released report from Municipal Market Analytics (MMA). That previous high of 22 was recorded in 2016. So far in 2020, […]
Trilogy Health Services has invested millions into employee education and retention — a process that continues as the coronavirus pandemic surges across the country, CEO Leigh Ann Barney told Senior Housing News. The Louisville, Kentucky-based owner and operator is partnering with two colleges to provide continuing education opportunities for its workforce. First, Trilogy employees and […]
Like the senior living industry at large, Artis Senior Living followed guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as state and local public health departments, in responding to the coronavirus pandemic. But the information from those agencies was fluid in nature, and often contradictory. So Artis decided it needed a […]
Long-awaited federal financial support for assisted living providers is on the way, according to the American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA). Private-pay assisted living providers will have access “very soon” to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Provider Relief Fund, an HHS official told ASHA leadership on a call Wednesday. The overall dollar amount […]
Faced with operational pressures related to Covid-19, many providers say they will only be able to sustain current operations for up to 12 months. That’s according to the results of a new survey from the National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL). NCAL polled 193 assisted living operators across the United States from August 8 through […]
Pathway to Living was ready to receive its first move-ins at Aspired Living of LaGrange, a 117-unit assisted living and memory care community in LaGrange, Illinois, in early April. Construction was completed. The facility received a provisional license from the Illinois Department of Public Health. Then the coronavirus pandemic intensified across Illinois, forcing the owner […]
Five months after Covid-19 reached U.S. shores, reality is sinking in about how long senior living communities will have to remain on a pandemic footing. For Lake Oswego, Oregon-based Eclipse Senior Living, one of the key areas of focus right now is “pushing a recalibration,” to help associates shift from the “sprint” of immediate crisis […]
The coronavirus pandemic’s initial spread throughout nursing homes in the United States continues to color perceptions from prospective residents — and to a lesser extent, their adult children — about the relative safety of long-term care across the spectrum, nearly six months later. As a result, current senior living demand is stemming largely from those […]
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