A Place for Mom CEO: We’ve Built a Marketing, Tech ‘Machine’ to Power Senior Living Move-Ins

In recent years, A Place for Mom (APFM) CEO Larry Kutscher has led the organization through a “transformation.” That transformation, still ongoing, has resulted in a marketing and technology “machine” that Kutscher believes will help propel the industry into its next chapter. “We’re very focused on driving conversion and helping educate communities on how they […]

Life Plan Community Occupancy Still Beating Senior Living at Large

Occupancy at life plan communities is continuing to outpace non-life plan communities as senior living operators work to grow occupancy back to pre-covid levels in 2023. According to a new report from Ziegler using NIC MAP Vision data, occupancy at life plan communities registered at 87.2% in the fourth quarter of 2022, a marked increase […]

Waterton Transitioning All Pathway to Living Management Agreements to New Operators 

Pathway to Living is facing an uncertain future after parent company Waterton moved to transition all of the operator’s managed communities to other senior living operators. The companies to take on the properties include Sonata Senior Living, which is in May slated to begin managing one Pathway property in Florida. The community, Azpira of Windermere, […]

How Unit Mix Helps Arrow Senior Living, Bridgewood, Priority Life Care Hit Higher Margins

As operators tweak their portfolios in 2023 with margins in mind, unit mix is among their most crucial considerations. New data from the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) showed that appropriately sizing care segments is one of the most important factors when developing and designing a senior living community, and one […]

Former Claiborne Exec Joins Jaybird Senior Living as COO

Justin Wray has joined Jaybird Senior Living as the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based senior living provider’s operations executive. Wray brings nearly two decades of senior living experience with him to Jaybird Senior Living, having worked with various senior living providers including Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD), Frontier Management, Pegasus Senior Living, Mather and Pacifica Senior Living, […]

AlerisLife Now Private After Acquisition by ABP Completed

AlerisLife is no longer a publicly traded entity, as the acquisition of Newton, Massachusetts-based senior living provider by ABP Acquisition LLC is complete, the companies announced on Monday. AlerisLife is now a subsidiary of ABP after the company completed the previously-announced tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of common stock of AlerisLife for $1.31 […]