When Rate Increases Aren’t Enough: How Juniper, Goodwin Are Decompressing Senior Living Margins

Senior living operators have for the last few years been laser-focused on generating more revenue to re-elongate margins compressed during the pandemic, and on that front operators have made some progress. But for all the revenue operators have won back through occupancy gains and rate increases, margins have in many cases not returned to pre-pandemic […]

Movers and Shakers: Saint Therese Announces CSMO; Acts Retirement-Life Communities Appoints Two Leaders

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Transactions and Financings: Juniper Communities Adds Three Communities; Health Dimension Group to Manage Northern Lights Services

Transactions Juniper Communities adds three communities Juniper Communities announced on March 13 that it had added three communities to its portfolio. According to a post on LinkedIn from the company, the new communities are in Hamilton and Washington Square, New Jersey, and Newark, Delaware. A press release states the communities include Juniper Village at Newark, […]

What the Senate Hearing on Assisted Living Foretells About Sector’s Future

This article is available as part of your SHN+ membership The Jan. 25 Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on assisted living covered a lot of ground – which makes sense, considering that the committee’s last hearing dedicated to AL took place 20 years ago. Given the variety of topics covered – including resident safety, […]

Juniper CEO: 6 Mindshifts Needed to Deliver on Promise of Senior Living in 2024 and Beyond

By: Lynne Katzmann Change is hard. Senior living providers have discovered that repeatedly in recent years, as they have tried to adapt and evolve to new consumer preferences, new payment models, new technology, and other challenges and transformations. Change is really hard if you don’t understand the “why” behind the change. Said another way, change […]

Movers and Shakers: Charter Senior Living Appoints VP of Finance, Investments; The Bristal Assisted Living Hires Corporate Director of Sales 

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Memory Care Operators Embrace Managed Care Amid Wider Shift to Value-Based Payments

By Jesse Floyd Memory care providers are shifting to a managed care model, seeking to forestall expensive medical crises in favor of working to keep residents as healthy as possible for longer. Residents living with dementia go to the emergency room more than 1.4 million times per year, but such visits are potentially confusing or […]

Small-Home Memory Care Providers Scale Up, Refine Models to Meet Growing Demand

The Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated many advantages of small-home senior living, and interest in these models among investors and operators surged as a result. Memory care is no exception to this trend, and providers who operate smaller communities are gearing up to grow. Inspired by pioneering concepts such as Green House communities, small-home senior living often […]