Kindred Healthcare announced it will not be renewing another lease agreement with Ventas for six nursing and rehabilitation centers and two long-term care facilities.
Improving economy will help senior living field, expert says
By
Elizabeth Newman
May 01, 2012
Senior living operators should be cautiously optimistic due to the rebounding economy and increased consumer confidence, a lead economist said in March.
Nursing home workers sue over insurance
By
Elizabeth Newman
May 01, 2012
Two former nursing home employees may be headed to trial over what they say is their previous employer’s failure to pay into a group health plan.
Surveyors not ruled biased for seeking $42,600 in fines
By
Elizabeth Newman
May 01, 2012
A Jewish nursing home in Pennsylvania has been turned back in its attempt to have a penalty reviewed that it said resulted from a biased survey process.
The merger of two e-learning firms seen as a good sign
By
Elizabeth Newman
May 01, 2012
Two online training companies for post-acute healthcare workers have announced a merger.
Better policies her policy
By
Elizabeth Newman
May 01, 2012
From an early age onward, Judy Feder learned how to stick up for herself. The third of four girls raised by an English immigrant salesman and a bookkeeper mother, Feder says she was told by her father...
LeadingAge gets a 911 call
By
Elizabeth Newman
Apr 24, 2012
You could soak up plenty of what you’d want to hear at a conference Monday at the LeadingAge PEAK Leadership Summit: discussions ranging from leadership and policy to payments.
Flirting with disaster
By
Elizabeth Newman
Apr 17, 2012
Having once slept through a 6.7-magnitude earthquake, driven blithely through snowstorms and regularly horrified my Kansas-born husband with my lack of knowledge about tornadoes, I am far from an expert...
Feline happy over your SEO
By
Elizabeth Newman
Apr 10, 2012
Given the response to last week’s post about the Affordable Care Act and the Supreme Court, I’ve decided there’s only one way to make this week’s blog as successful in terms of...
Why the Supreme Court will vote in favor of the Affordable Care Act
By
Elizabeth Newman
Apr 03, 2012
You may not like — nay, hate — the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. Supreme Court may agree with you. That doesn’t mean the justices will strike it down.