By Heather Boshak, partner, Fox Rothschild LLP In January 2022, New Jersey announced new, stricter COVID-19 regulations that will require employees in healthcare facilities to…
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ATLANTA — Seniors housing operators have been grappling the past 18 months with how to maintain their properties and keep occupancy high while also protecting…
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Private-pay seniors housing occupancy remained flat in the second quarter of 2021, holding at 78.7 percent, according to new NIC MAP data, powered by NIC MAP…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD) has reported that occupancy across its portfolio has increased for three straight months, signaling a start…
The seniors housing industry has been through the wringer as a result of the pandemic, setting and then re-setting its own record-low occupancy rates as…
CHICAGO — Fifty-one percent of senior housing properties experienced no COVID-19 deaths in 2020, according to an analysis by NORC at the University of Chicago…
CHICAGO — Although the seniors housing industry still faces many challenges, long-term demand still has the sector on a trajectory of growth. That’s according to…
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Occupancy at U.S. skilled nursing facilities increased to 71.2 percent in February 2021 compared to 70.7 percent from the previous month, according…
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Occupancy at U.S. skilled nursing facilities in December 2020 reached its lowest level since data have been collected, ending the year at…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) has released a report showing nursing homes in the U.S.…
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Seniors housing operators are rushing to host vaccine clinics for residents and staff, hoping to put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic…
As the COVID-19 vaccine rolls out around the country, nobody is more excited to put the pandemic behind them than seniors housing operators. The disease…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than half of assisted living providers say they won’t survive another year at the current operating pace due to the COVID-19…
The pandemic has turned some technologies from optional amenities into operational necessities. By Jonathan Gould, K4Connect COVID has brought countless industries to a halt and…
With two approved vaccines to combat COVID-19, the end of the pandemic is visible on the horizon. However, some seniors housing experts say it may…
Nine months of shifting COVID-19 protocols have revealed many new best practices. By Bob Burg, Moves for Seniors (NOTE: This article is intended to summarize…
MCLEAN, Va. — A recent survey of Sunrise Senior Living residents and families found that more than 92 percent of respondents would “definitely” or “probably”…
Now approved for use in the United States, the first round of COVID-19 vaccines has officially landed. Employees and residents in assisted living and skilled…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), a Washington, D.C.-based organization representing more than 14,000 nursing homes…
The COVID-19 pandemic has been an existential crisis for the seniors housing industry, where the people most susceptible to the disease are the same who…