Healthspan, Staffing, Revenue: Inside Senior Living Industry’s Margin-Boosting Efforts 

This story is part of your SHN+ subscription The senior living industry has shifted from occupancy recovery to margin growth as capacity narrows, and operators are boosting healthspan of residents, improving their workforce and more closely managing revenue. Higher rent and occupancy growth in recent quarters have not necessarily spelled margin growth, according to a […]

What Providers Can Learn From Arrow Senior Living’s Operational ‘Secret Weapon’ 

Arrow Senior Living has an operational “secret weapon,” according to CEO Stephanie Harris, and it’s something that other operators could learn from. The senior living operator based just outside St. Louis works alongside Arizona State University in a collaborative partnership with students of Professor Jeffrey Baum’s data science program to sift through company data and […]

ASHA Plans More Growth for Referral Site Where You Live Matters in 2026

The American Seniors Housing Association’s senior living education and referral platform, Where You Live Matters, has added thousands of communities to its database. Now, the site and ASHA are taking that growth and momentum into 2026. ASHA relaunched and rebuilt the Where You Live Matters site in 2024 to better connect consumers with operators and […]

Operators Can Do More to Adopt Costco-Style Senior Living Models

This story is part of your SHN+ subscription In 2025, senior living operators are looking to strategies from companies like Costco (NASDAQ: COST) to improve staffing and quality. I think there’s still more the industry can learn. Senior living operators have embraced staffing models that emulate the retail giant’s practice of rewarding high-quality workers with […]

How Arrow Senior Living Is ‘Future-Proofing’ Operations for Industry’s Incoming Customers

Arrow Senior Living’s path ahead in 2025 is all about “optimization and transformation,” according to CEO Stephanie Harris. “We’re really excited about the growth opportunities of leveraging each individual community and taking it to the next level for us,” Harris told Senior Housing News. The St. Charles, Missouri-based provider has multiple projects in its development […]

‘Significantly More Difficult’: Assisted Living Operators Grapple With Changing Resident Acuity

It’s a common refrain in senior living that today’s assisted living communities are closer to yesterday’s skilled nursing facilities. In 2025, operators are indeed contending with residents’ increasing acuity needs. Multiple factors have pushed assisted living care delivery into higher acuity. Operators have said older adults are waiting longer to seek out senior living services, […]

In the Pipeline: Arrow Continues Building in Missouri; Cedarhurst to Expand in Illinois

In the Pipeline is part of your SHN+ subscription In the Pipeline is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards, an annual competition that recognizes cutting-edge design, excellence, and innovation in senior living. Construction: Planned Cedarhurst Senior Living adds independent living cottages Cedarhurst Senior Living announced plans to expand independent […]