Blockbuster merger will bring Brookdale, Emeritus together, create largest senior living company
By
Tim Mullaney
Feb 21, 2014
Brookdale Senior Living and Emeritus Senior Living will merge through a $2.8 billion deal, in a move that Brookdale CEO T. Andrew Smith said will be “transformative for the industry.” The expanded...
Jonathan Blum, who oversaw long-term care reforms, resigns as head of Medicare
Apr 23, 2014
The nation’s top Medicare official, Jonathan Blum, is leaving his post next month, news outlets reported Tuesday. Blum became a familiar figure to long-term care providers through Open Door Forum...
Supreme Court to hear case sparked by Omnicare deals
By
Julie Williamson
Apr 01, 2014
A recent $4 million legal settlement over kickbacks for anemia drug Aranesp is small change compared to other recent deals Omnicare has made with federal authorities. News of these payouts hasn’t...
Updated guidance includes CDC recommending 14-day quarantine for facility residents who go off-site for...
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 05, 2021
Nursing homes are being encouraged to quarantine residents who leave the facility for more than 24 hours under updated guidance released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Long-term care provider, worker groups weigh in on GOP immigration principles
By
Tim Mullaney
Feb 03, 2014
A statement of principles for immigration reform issued by Republicans in the House of Representatives is a good sign of potential legislative progress on this issue, long-term care provider and labor...
Hundreds of thousands of nursing home residents’ votes at risk thanks to pandemic
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 21, 2020
Visitor restrictions at long-term care facilities and adapted voting procedures due to the pandemic are clouding the prospects of nursing home residents getting to a ballot box this November, advocates...
Providers to learn: never enough friends in play
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 01, 2013
Sometimes long-term care providers struggle to find meaning in the signs that are strewn in their path. Whether it’s legalese, regulatory gobbledy-gook or some form of bureaucracy, uncertain messages...
Study maps home time in people on Medicare in assisted living communities
By
Kristen Fischer
Dec 19, 2023
A new study gives more insights into how much time older people in assisted living spend in and out of it.
LTC insurance groups need a better strategy
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 01, 2014
What the long-term care insurance market could use right now is a healthy dose of capitalism. But it isn’t going to happen.
Poor oversight allows nursing home workers to plunder residents’ trust funds, investigation finds
By
Tim Mullaney
Oct 17, 2013
Nursing home workers face few impediments in stealing money from residents’ trust funds, according to a USA Today investigation that uncovered thousands of cases of financial exploitation.