NIC, data analytics vendor team up to help with skilled-nursing benchmarking
Jun 05, 2018
The National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care is teaming up with a data analytics vendor, aiming to help the skilled-nursing field to measure itself up against the competition.
The next big thing in nurse communication
May 09, 2018
TekTone hopes to make nurse communication easier and more affordable with one of its latest products.
Ratings galaxies apart: Government’s Nursing Home Compare gravitates toward clinical while Yelp...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 26, 2018
Social media users who rate nursing homes often do so using more service-oriented criteria than government officials, say academic researchers who took a deep look at how Yelp reviews of nursing homes...
Clinics offering ‘miraculous’ treatment for diabetic foot ulcers hit with federal fraud charges
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 10, 2018
A federal grand jury has indicted the lawyer behind a ‘miraculous’ diabetes treatment widely panned as sham medicine.
Program helps dementia communication
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 08, 2018
A 10-week intervention to support couples affected by dementia shows coaching and role-playing can help improve communication between patient and caregiver. Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s...
CommuniCare buys 13 SNFs
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 08, 2018
Cincinnati-based CommuniCare Health Services has purchased 13 long-term care facilities previously managed by Atrium Centers. With the acquisition, the privately held company expands its holding to more...
Skilled nursing revenues lower but Five Star sees electronic records as salvation
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2018
Though its nursing home revenues dropped significantly in 2017, Five Star Senior Living leaders sounded convinced Wednesday that efforts to improve electronic record keeping and data tracking will lead...
Per-bed SNF price plummets in 2017; NIC’s cross-sector collaboration to support industry
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 08, 2018
After setting records for five straight years, the average price per-bed for skilled nursing facilities plunged 18% in 2017, according to acquisition data published by Irving Levin Associates Wednesday.
CommuniCare adds 13 new SNFs in Ohio
Mar 06, 2018
Cincinnati-based CommuniCare Health Services is adding more than a dozen skilled nursing centers to its portfolio, the company has announced.
Less heads in the beds: NIC
By
John O'Connor
Feb 09, 2018
How low can it go? That’s a question many operators are ask- ing in the wake of a report by the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care that reveals declining census numbers.