Mailed arbitration agreement doesn’t cut it in home health case
By
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
By
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
By
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...
Beverly grants more time for buyer to meet financing obligations
By
Haymarket Media
Sep 26, 2005
Officials of BEI, as Beverly Enterprises Inc. is now known, announced that the company’s proposed acquisition agreement with North American Senior Care Inc. has been amended to grant North American...
More than $1 billion awarded to find faster flu vaccine
By
Haymarket Media
May 08, 2006
The Department of Health and Human Services awarded more than $1 billion in contracts to five companies to develop flu vaccine using a method that could get the products faster to market. Nursing home...
NIH: COVID rebound after Paxlovid may signal a strong immune response
By
Alicia Lasek
Oct 11, 2022
Patients who had rebound symptoms after taking Paxlovid showed a more robust immune response to SARS-CoV-2 than patients with no rebound, investigators reported.
NIH head says full Pfizer vaccine approval could come this summer
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 20, 2021
Waiting for full federal approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is no reason to delay protection, the director of the National Institutes of Health said Monday, but those still holding out for the end...