Movers and Shakers: LeadingAge President, CEO to Step Down; Anthem Promotes President 

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What Operators Can Learn From Wellpointe’s Planned $2B Affordable Senior Housing Project 

This story is part of your SHN+ subscription Senior living organization Wellpointe is taking a big swing with a public-private collaboration to see a 3,200-unit affordable housing project come to life in Los Angeles. It carries lessons in affordability for the senior living industry. Wellpointe is bringing the $2 billion project, Viva L.A. Warner Center, to the Woodland Hills area of L.A. The […]

Coalition Including ASHA, Argentum, LeadingAge Seeks Input for Assisted Living Emergency Preparedness Guidelines 

A coalition of senior living trade organizations is seeking feedback from providers on new emergency preparedness guidelines. The Quality in Assisted Living Collaborative (QALC) is a collaborative effort from the American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA), Argentum, LeadingAge, the National Center for Assisted Living, and the National Association for Regulatory Administration (NARA). It is meant to […]

HR Director Salaries at CCRCs Rise Most at 5.97%, COOs See Smallest Increase at 2.42%

Among workers at continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) and life plan communities (LPCs), directors of human resources saw the greatest percentage increase in their compensation year over year. That average salary increased to $113,616 from $107,216, totaling a 5.97% increase from 2024 to 2025, according to the 28th CCRC Salary & Benefits Report from Hospital […]

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 a New Trump Administration, Congress Could Affect the Senior Living Industry

As the dust settles from the results of the 2024 general election, senior living advocates and organizations will be closely monitoring signals from the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump and 119th Congress. Trump officially secured Wisconsin’s electoral college votes, pushing him past the 270 required to win the White House. On Wednesday the senior […]

Gardant Co-President, Industry Associations Call for Better Public-Private Collaboration in Senate Hearing

Closer collaboration between the government and private-pay senior living operators are needed to maintain assisted living quality and affordability in the years to come. That’s according to Gardant Management Solutions Co-president and COO Julie Simpkins, who spoke Thursday at a U.S. Senate hearing spurred by the Washington Post’s series of articles highlighting elopements and staffing […]

Wages for Key Assisted Living Clinical Workers Rose 5% to 6% in 2023

Wages for many key health care workers in assisted living increased between 5% and 6% on average last year. That’s according to the latest edition of the Assisted Living Salary & Benefits Report from Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS), which is produced in collaboration with LeadingAge and the National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL). […]