Monday Jump-Start: AdCare Fires CEO, Kindred Buyout Rumors

Happy Monday! Hopefully your weekend was as exciting or as relaxing as you’d intended. Before this week gets too busy, be sure to catch up on last week’s most-read stories on Senior Housing News:  Gardant Management Solutions CEO Rod Burkett flies Southwest Airlines a lot—and he looks to the company for inspiration in running his […]

Trilogy Takes Leadership Development Cues from Humana, Chick-fil-A

As the senior living industry grapples with workforce issues marked by millennial preferences and employee disengagement, providers are doubling down on their efforts to attract new talent, nurture their staffs and foster their leadership skills. One such operator making leadership a priority is Trilogy Health Services, and the Louisville, Kentucky-based senior living and post-acute provider […]

Editor’s Picks: The Future of Senior Housing

This week on Senior Housing News, readers learned about the future of senior housing, which has a lot to do with adhering to the needs of middle-income seniors. They also learned how to arrange good deals on Class B senior housing properties, how senior living companies still rely on temp agencies to combat staffing woes, […]

Editor’s Picks: Southwest Airlines and Iris Apfel

This week, Senior Housing News readers learned how the current population of people 40 and older feel about senior living, why a major senior living operator idolizes Southwest Airlines and how to use social media to advance as a senior living provider. Also, SHN will be observing Memorial Day on Monday, May 30. We’ll resume […]

What Senior Living Can Learn from Southwest Airlines

From branding to pricing to improving health outcomes, senior living has borrowed from airline industry playbooks. Now, one of the largest senior living companies in the country is being inspired by the employee engagement approach at one of the major U.S. airlines. Specifically, Des Moines, Iowa-based Life Care Services LLC—the third-largest senior living operator by […]