Felony charges against Silverado CEO Loren Shook and two other employees have been dropped, the company announced Thursday. Shook, along with company leaders Jason Russo and Kim Butrum, were previously charged with 13 felony counts of elder endangerment and five felony counts of violation causing death. Irvine, California-based Silverado also faced charges as a company. […]
(Update: A judge dismissed these charges in October, 2023. Read that story on Senior Housing News’ sister publication, Memory Care Business.) Prosecutors in Los Angeles have announced charges against Silverado CEO Loren Shook and two other company leaders in connection with a Covid-19 outbreak associated with the death of 14 people at a community in […]
Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) and Pennant Group (Nasdaq: PNTG) held their earnings calls in the last week, with one common theme being the future of the executive director role. “We are evolving the executive director role to emphasize a larger growth mindset, underscoring strong sales acumen for the incumbents and future community leaders,” Brookdale […]
Senior living operators have radically changed the way they operate over the last few years. Looking ahead, it’s clear there are more changes to come as the industry sits at a crossroads between recovery and stagnation. The shift in the industry since the height of the pandemic has created a multitude of opportunities and challenges. […]
Some senior living residents use cannabis products in their communities, but as they do so operators have had to navigate a perilous and often confusing legal minefield. Much of that has to do with the fact that marijuana is still a Schedule I drug on the federal level, a category also shared by heroin, LSD […]
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: Planned EveryAge community to mark renovations with ceremony Lake Prince Woods, a CCRC in Suffolk, Virginia will host a groundbreaking ceremony for its wellness center […]
Senior living is an arguably more challenging industry in 2022 than in any year before the pandemic — but even so, the industry is moving in the right direction, according to Silverado CEO Loren Shook. While the general cost of doing business has risen steadily in the past year and labor remains a sore spot […]
Fortune Magazine’s annual Best Workplaces in Aging Services list is once again populated by some familiar faces. Baltimore-based Brightview Senior Living took the No. 1 spot on this year’s list, while Chicago-based Vi was third on the list. Long-term care provider Citadel Healthcare was this year’s runner-up. The annual list ranks the top aging services […]
The most frequent comment I heard at our inaugural BRAIN conference two weeks ago was: This event was badly needed, because memory care is given scant attention at most industry gatherings. I’ve observed this to be true. At most events, perhaps one or two panels — if that — will be devoted to memory care. […]
New memory care treatments and diagnostic tools. Promising technology. More resident-centric programming and operations. These and other advances have pushed memory care into a new era, with the leaders of two senior living companies, Silverado and Symphony Senior Living, leading the charge in the sector’s next evolution. The Memory care product type was hit hard […]
