Senior living operators with value-based offerings are getting a boost from a nearly doubled Medicare Advantage (MA) capitation rate in 2026. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) previously announced a 5.06% increase in MA capitation rates, higher than what some analysts expected, including Macquarie Senior Healthcare Equities Research Analyst Tao Qiu. A capitation […]
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 […]
Medicaid could soon be on the chopping block. Senior housing and care leaders are warning that the cuts could complicate operations at the least, if not hurt access and care for older adults. On Tuesday night, the U.S. House narrowly passed a budget resolution bill urging the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to cut […]
If you ask Experience Senior Living CEO Phill Barklow, the senior living industry has an opportunity to kick growth into higher gear in 2025. But industry’s goal to “thrive in 2025” is contrasted with many operating challenges operators face in their plans for new growth. In working to narrow the supply-demand gap as development remains […]
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Achieving strong lease-up before and after a community opens is critical for setting the stage for a new project reaching stabilization – and not an easy feat. Operators must contend with local market competition, sometimes within new markets; balance sales and marketing tactics to raise brand awareness; and leverage seemingly every department involved in community […]
In the Pipeline is part of your SHN+ subscription 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 LeadingAge Maryland receives grant to boost affordable senior housing LeadingAge Maryland recently was selected for […]
An executive of KKR (NYSE: KKR), a private equity giant involved in the senior living industry, is spearheading a new effort aimed at promoting more employee ownership structures. The executive is Pete Stavros, co-head of global private equity at KKR. In 2019, the company became the capital partner of Waltham, Massachusetts-based Benchmark. The private equity […]
This article is part of your SHN+ subscription Editor’s note: The upcoming Senior Housing News ReBUILD conference will feature many more great insights into the development landscape. Check out the agenda and purchase tickets here. While the pulse of senior living development may have slowed in the last four years, recent plans and projects underway […]
If they hope to be successful, operators must understand that senior living is a “problem business.” That’s according to The Springs Living CEO Fee Stubblefield, who explained that residents frequently come to senior living communities because they are experiencing problems – for this reason, among others, there are “friction points” that are inevitable, and demand […]
