Voices: Rich Valway, President and CEO, Culinary Services Group

This article is sponsored by Culinary Services Group. In this Voices interview, Senior Housing News sits down with Rich Valway, president and CEO of Culinary Services Group, to learn more about the connection between delivering a top-flight dining experience and building census. Valway also shares the biggest value that operators can gain from partnering with […]

Inside IDDSI: What to Know About the New Dysphagia Dining Framework

Dining for seniors with dysphagia — swallowing difficulties — has always been a challenge for operators in the United States, for three key reasons. First, the natural challenges of determining which food residents can eat, and how thick that food can be. Second, procuring that food and adhering to those standards. And third, the lack […]

4 Ways A Dining Program Can Rebuild Occupancy

As we enter the second half of 2021, senior living occupancy sits at a record low of 78.7%, which is the same total as Q1 of this year. Yet that number from National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) doesn’t tell the whole story and leaves a lot of room for operator optimism. […]

Transactions & Financings: Related Cos. JV Lands $276M; New Senior Completes $385M Portfolio Sale

New Senior completes $385M AL/MC Portfolio sale New Senior Investment Group (NYSE: SNR) completed the $385 million sale of its entire assisted living and memory care portfolio for a gross sale price of $385 million (the “Transaction”). Proceeds from the transaction, which was first announced last November, were used to reduce debt by approximately $360 […]