Healthcare REIT buying spree grabs Sunrise Senior Living
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 01, 2012
Health Care REIT Inc. will acquire Sunrise Senior Living for $844.6 million in cash, creating a mammoth senior living company that will send ripples through the sector.
Top not-for-profits listed
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 01, 2012
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society led the list of largest non-for-profit senior living operators in 2011, according to the annual Leading Age/Ziegler 100 report.
The cost of retaliation against operator? $25 million in NY
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 01, 2012
A former long-term care provider has achieved a $25 million victory over state authorities. Brook Chambery, the owner of the long-closed Beechwood Restorative Care Center in Rochester, NY, became the benefactor...
Higher authority may hear religious suit
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 01, 2012
A former nursing home activities aide allegedly fired over refusing to pray the rosary with a Catholic resident can proceed with a religious discrimination claim, a federal court ruled in September.
The heart of what we believe
By
Elizabeth Newman
Sep 25, 2012
If the AARP convention last week was any indication, some seniors aren’t buying what Paul Ryan is selling. The question is, are you?
A valid approach to feelings
By
Elizabeth Newman
Sep 18, 2012
As a teenager, I took a self-defense class, where a piece of advice stuck with me: Women tend to have more strength in their legs than their arms. If you engage an attacker with your arms in a push-pull...
One resident’s trash is another animal’s treasure
By
Elizabeth Newman
Sep 11, 2012
Perhaps you regularly see acts of altruism that restore your faith in humanity. Given that I work in journalism and live in the city, I do not. Therefore, exceptional kindness gives me pause. Or in this...
Testing our patience, er, patients with too many medical procedures
By
Elizabeth Newman
Sep 04, 2012
A few years ago, I got sick and didn’t get better, and eventually landed in the ER for being dehydrated. That begat weeks of X-rays, an endoscopy and countless tests, including one that revealed...
U.S. court upholds decision on nixing union election rule
By
Elizabeth Newman
Sep 01, 2012
A federal trial court has upheld a blow to a National Labor Relations Board rule on union elections.
Hospice beneficiaries at a draw with HHS
By
Elizabeth Newman
Sep 01, 2012
What hospice services will pay for, and whether beneficiaries receive correct information from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, converged as issues in court this summer.