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). […]
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This article is available as part of your SHN+ membership The senior living sector was rocked this week by the Washington Post’s series slamming assisted living. The three articles took aim at multiple facets of the senior living business but mainly focused on elopements among residents with memory care needs. Senior living associations and some […]
A series of investigations from the Washington Post on resident elopement and staffing has shone a new light on memory care operators and the challenges they face keeping residents safe. One of the Post stories, published over the weekend, centered on residents who wandered away from memory care communities since 2018, almost 100 of which […]
The senior living industry must provide more affordable assisted living for low- and middle-income older adults in the years to come, and the public sector can play a role in that effort. That’s according to a recent white paper from The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), which outlined barriers […]
A flurry of news has come out of the nation’s capital this week with implications—some positive, some less so—for the senior housing industry. Specifically, a U.S. Senator pushed to kill the EB-5 visa program, which is utilized by some senior housing developers. Also, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pushed back the compliance […]
Some assisted living residents may be forced to move under a recently finalized federal rule, causing two U.S. Senators to take action. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri), co-chairs of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, penned a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), expressing their concern with a […]
Senior Lifestyle Announces New EVP, Chief Administrative Officer Senior Lifestyle, an owner, operator and developer of senior living communities, announced the promotion of Justin Robins to executive vice president and chief administrative officer. Robins has served in various roles at Senior Lifestyle, including financial analyst, director of development, director of hospitality, vice president of capital and […]
With a labor crisis in store that includes a worker shortage and wage pressures ahead, health care organizations are grappling with yet another workforce challenge: the rise of the millennials. Millennials, or those born roughly between 1982 and 2000, comprise the largest generation since the baby boom. Known for being “job hoppers,” “entitled,” and the […]
Mainstreet Hires Green House Founder Bill Thomas Mainstreet, a national investment company, has hired Dr. Bill Thomas as its new director of innovative health care. Thomas is the creator of The Green House, a model of care that focuses on a smaller scale of residents. He is a Harvard-Trained geriatrician and internationally recognized expert on […]
Five Star Quality Care Appoints Richard A. Doyle as CFO and Treasurer Senior living and health care services company Five Star Quality Care, Inc. (NYSE: FVE) announced the election of Richard A. Doyle as its chief financial officer and treasurer. He was elected by Five Star’s board of directors. Doyle previously served as chief financial […]