In the Pipeline: HRA, Confluent Senior Living Finish Ohio Project; Integral Senior Living Opens Texas Community

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: In Progress AgeWell Solvere Living Florida project starts Aden Senior Living, a community in Ormond Beach, Florida part of AgeWell Solvere Living, recently started construction. […]

Senior Lifestyle CEO: We’re Doing Things Differently for a New Era

Senior Lifestyle is engaged in a period of reinvention as the company pivots from the challenges of the last three years and into a new era for senior living operations. That’s according to Jon DeLuca, President and CEO of the Chicago-based operator, who thinks now is the perfect time to look inward and “refocus where […]

Movers and Shakers: Morning Pointe Adds Clinical Services VP; Berkadia Expands Senior Housing Team

Movers & Shakers is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Job Board. Browse and apply to management and executive senior living jobs and positions from leading professional firms serving the industry. Employers can post single jobs, purchase job packages or our premium subscription that includes unlimited job posts and editorial coverage for one […]

Developer Bonaventure Pivots to Acquisitions to Advance Senior Living Growth Strategy 

Real estate development company Bonaventure is exploring senior living acquisitions in 2023 as the cost of new development and sourcing capital for projects remains high. The Arlington, Virginia-based real estate development company will look for assets that are “great buildings with great fundamentals, but they have a bad balance sheet,” according to CEO Dwight Dunton. […]

Senior Living Leaders See Need to Overhaul Industry’s ‘Basic Operating Model’

Margin compression is forcing senior living providers to reconsider some of the most fundamental aspects of the traditional operating model. This was one takeaway from the American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA) conference that took place earlier this week in Scottsdale, Arizona. Covid-related margin pressure has been exacerbated by cost inflation and staffing pressures. After two […]

4 Tough Questions for Senior Living Operators in 2023

Earlier this week, Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) announced a lease restructuring with Maplewood Senior Living, which is experiencing a modest cash crunch. The news underscores just how uncertain the year ahead is for senior living. Maplewood is a luxury operator with healthy occupancy and has pushed through notable rate increases, yet lease-up issues and […]

Senior Living Executive Forecast 2023: Pivoting Away From ‘Crisis Mode’

With a pandemic, staffing woes and operational headwinds serving as the backdrop, the senior living industry has spent the last two years lurching from one crisis to another. In 2023, that must end. That is the belief of HumanGood CEO John Cochrane. As he surveys the industry, Cochrane still sees plenty of operational areas requiring […]

10 Most-Read Senior Housing News Stories of 2022

While many senior living providers continued the long march towards a pandemic recovery, the industry saw operators innovate with new development, and familiar players in the space face new challenges in 2022. Tackling the “quiet quitting” labor issue and reports of a Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) sale led to the most-read top stories on […]

How LCS, Senior Lifestyle, Presbyterian Senior Living Are Improving Sales for 2023

On the cusp of a new year, senior living operators are focused on occupancy and margin recovery — and it all starts with sales. The pandemic changed the way senior living operators connect and engage with prospects, and senior living sales leaders have altered their tactics accordingly. That has resulted in better communication practices, new […]

Tripledemic Has Senior Living Providers Gearing Up for Next Virus Fight

Senior living operators are taking necessary steps to prepare for what could be a “tripledemic,” in which operators must tackle potential spikes in Covid-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). “We’ve come into a place where it feels like we’re operating almost normally with some precautions that have stayed with us,” MBK Vice President of […]