Lawsuit challenges nursing home liability protections for non-COVID death
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 27, 2021
Survivors of a former North Carolina nursing home resident are suing the facility where she died in what could be a litmus test for the patchwork of liability protections granted to healthcare providers...
Rural towns ravaged by healthcare and job losses with latest nursing home closures
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 07, 2019
When Minnesota’s Twin Valley Living Center closed late last year, it took with it dozens of beds intended for the town’s frail and elderly. But, as with hundreds of other skilled care communities around...
Foundations and Granite Creek Health win Gold in Tech Awards
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 02, 2018
Foundations Health Solutions in Warren, OH, and Granite Creek Health and Rehab in Prescott City, AZ, won Gold Awards.
Healthcare reform already driving diverse, dynamic long-term care models, LeadingAge leaders say
By
Tim Mullaney
Oct 21, 2014
One way to gauge the effects is healthcare reform is by looking at ongoing changes to the continuing care retirement community model, LeadingAge officials said Monday at the association’s annual...
Design decisions: Design as a matter of faith
By
Mary Gustafson
Dec 01, 2011
A new multi-faith chapel at one Florida continuing care retirement community provides enlightenment for believers and non-believers
Built from the ground up
By
Mary Gustafson
Dec 01, 2010
It’s hard to miss the enormous V-shaped, 18-floor high-rise northeast of Cincinnati’s downtown area. And that’s just how the owners and construction engineers of the upscale Stratford...
FDA advisers vote unanimously to endorse Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jun 08, 2022
Independent advisers have voted 21 to 0 to recommend the authorization of Novavax’s COVID-19 protein-based vaccine for pandemic emergency use.
Vaccine potency wanes, but third COVID shot restores 95 percent efficacy, new data show
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 16, 2021
New data from vaccine maker Pfizer and Israel’s health ministry may help U.S. health agencies make a case for recommending COVID-19 booster shots, various sources report.
Diversicare acquisition could be an example of what’s to come
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 30, 2021
The merger agreement between Diversicare Healthcare Services and DAC Acquisition is the latest example of a “pattern of consolidation” that could be accelerating throughout the industry since the pandemic,...
FDA calls for investigation into its approval of controversial Alzheimer’s drug
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 12, 2021
The acting chief of the Food and Drug Administration has called for an investigation into the events leading up to the approval of Biogen’s brain plaque-clearing dementia drug aducanumab (Aduhelm).