Lincoln Financial LTC insurance brings covered services to 12
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 24, 2019
Lincoln Financial Group’s new MoneyGuard® III adds new coverage and benefit options for long-term care insurance customers. Among the 12 covered services now under the umbrella are: A transitional care...
NIC announces new partner in data-transparency effort
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 17, 2019
The National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care has added PointClickCare as its newest NIC Actual Rates Software Partner, adding new data sources and analytic tools used to inform decision making...
Updated mobile PERS system debuts
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 17, 2019
Safety firm Nortek Security & Control has introduced a new generation of its popular mobile personal emergency response system and fall-detection solution called Numera Libris® 2. “This device is upgradeable...
Tivoli lighting introduces fluorescent alternative
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 17, 2019
Tivoli Lighting has introduced TivoCove, a low-profile, dimmable fixture designed to replace fluorescent lighting with high efficiency LED for indirect interior commercial and hospitality applications....
Symphony Post Acute expands network to Michigan
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 10, 2019
The Illinois-based Symphony Post Acute Network has acquired Caretel Inns of Brighton and Caretel Inns of Lakeland, with plans to acquire three more affiliated facilities. Caretel’s holdings cross Michigan;...
Health IT company launches referral solution
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 10, 2019
A new solution from data-activation company Innovaccer aims to improve patient outcomes through better referral management. The Referral Management Solution streamlines patient referrals for care organizations...
$2.8M lawsuit challenges competitor’s nonprofit status
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 06, 2019
A nursing home operator in Arkansas has taken aim at the Community Compassion Center brand, alleging in court that the competitor running those facilities is using nonprofit status to avoid accountability. ...
LTC tops healthcare market in early 2019
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 04, 2019
The changing face of long-term care continues to drive merger and acquisition activity for the fifth straight year, according to two new reports. Deal volume involving long-term care and assisted living...
Skilled nursing wants bigger piece of ACO pie. A new model that shows paying provides for upgrades —...
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 11, 2019
Paying subsidies to offset the cost of making patient care more efficient could boost participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Plan and save Medicare up to 40%.
‘Favorable trends’ put Genesis Healthcare in a buying mood
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 08, 2019
With a third consecutive quarter of occupancy growth and margin expansion, Genesis Healthcare wants to increase its real estate ownership even further, company leaders said Thursday morning.