Kindred, AmerisourceBergen to merge pharmacy services
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Haymarket Media
Aug 08, 2006
Kindred Healthcare Inc. and AmerisourceBergen Corp. have reached a tentative agreement to combine their institutional-pharmacy businesses into a new, independent publicly traded company.
U.S. invests $1 billion in a vaccine candidate; NIH tests multiple COVID-19 treatments
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 07, 2020
One hundred million doses of the experimental vaccine will be stockpiled. The deal increases the likelihood that the United States will have at least one safe, effective vaccine by 2021, HHS Secretary...
New headquarters announced
Oct 24, 2017
GF Health Products Inc. has purchased space for a new global headquarters in Atlanta.
Summit Healthcare REIT buys two SNFs
Mar 21, 2017
Summit Healthcare REIT Inc. bought two skilled nursing facilities at the end of February.
Mailed arbitration agreement doesn’t cut it in home health case
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 09, 2019
A home care assistant who claims she never received an arbitration agreement by mail has won the right to seek back-wages in court.
LeadingAge’s CAST releases EHR matrix selection tool
Aug 26, 2014
LeadingAge’s Center for Aging Services Technologies released its 2014 version of a tool to let long-term providers choose the best electronic health record for their facility.
BREAKING NEWS: New federal nursing home commission members named
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James M. Berklan
Jun 19, 2020
Top leaders in the long-term care industry lead the names announced Friday as members of the White House’s new Coronavirus Commission for Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes.
Ventas’s Cafaro elected chairwoman of real estate investment trust association
Nov 12, 2009
Debra A. Cafaro, chair, president and CEO of Ventas Inc., has been elected chair of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) for 2009-2010.
Jury awards $4.2 million in death of nursing home resident
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Haymarket Media
Mar 01, 2007
A Tennessee jury has awarded the relatives of a man who died in the care of a National Healthcare Corp. facility $4.2 million in compensatory damages.
Ziegler closes financing for two facilities
May 23, 2017
Ziegler successfully closed a $175.1 million tax-exempt, fixed-rate Series 2017 financing for Mary’s Woods at Marylhurst Inc. and a $64 million Series 2017 financing for Collington Episcopal Life...