Leisure Care Refreshes Portfolio, Evolves Programming for Tomorrow’s Senior Living Residents 

Leisure Care has a new website and revamped branding, all part of a companywide effort to prepare for the arrival of the baby boomer generation. In recent years since the pandemic began, the Seattle-based company’s leaders have sharpened the operator’s emphasis on staff morale, deepened its use of data and psychographics and, most recently, retooled […]

ProMedica Selling Hospice, Home Care Business to Gentiva in $710M Deal

By Zahida Siddiqi ProMedica is selling its Heartland hospice and home care service line to hospice giant Gentiva for $710 million. The deal, announced Monday, comes on the heels of nonprofit health system ProMedica divesting of nearly 150 skilled nursing facilities in a deal involving Welltower (NYSE: WELL) and Integra Health. ProMedica still operates about […]

Best Standalone Memory Care Design of 2022: An ‘Infinity Loop’ With Connections to Nature   

Nestled in the outer suburbs of Greater Philadelphia is a memory care community where residents can take in the outdoors and walk to their heart’s content. The community, Meadowwood in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, recently expanded with a new roughly 19,000 square foot memory care building that added 20 units of memory care and a variety of […]

United Methodist Takes Cues From Dutch Community Hogeweyk in Plans for ‘Next-Generation’ Memory Care Village

For years, the senior living industry has looked to the progressive Hogeweyk community in The Netherlands as a memory care pioneer. Now, a senior living operator has plans to replicate the concept stateside and potentially raise the bar on U.S.-based memory care services in the process. The operator is United Methodist Communities, which is based […]

ProMedica Portfolio Skews To Memory Care As Welltower, Integra Health JV Takes 147 SNFs

ProMedica’s senior care portfolio is being pared down substantially. The Toledo, Ohio-based organization will continue to operate 58 Arden Courts memory care communities that are in a joint venture with Welltower (NYSE: WELL), but is shedding nearly 150 skilled nursing assets. More specifically, Welltower is selling and transitioning 147 skilled nursing facilities currently operated by […]

Front Porch Goes Big on Memory Care with Multiple Investments, Conversions

Non-profit senior living operator Front Porch is expanding its memory care offerings while decreasing its skilled nursing units in order to meet evolving resident demands. The Glendale, California-based organization on Friday announced it had expanded memory care resources “through innovative services and expanded capacity in multiple locations across California.” Front Porch has 19 senior living […]

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 […]

3 Data Points Shedding Light on Future of Senior Living

In the last month, a number of reports have provided data points that shed light on what the future holds for senior living. These reports have included an update on the middle market opportunity, a definition of the active adult rental sector, a breakdown of health conditions and spending among residents, a deep-dive into memory […]