Assisted living communities continue to make a terrible first impression on prospective customers, university...
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Tim Mullaney
Sep 15, 2014
Assisted living communities consistently do not make a good first impression with prospective customers, and they haven’t improved this skill set in the last decade, according to data from George...
Emeritus will respond vigorously to ‘sensationalized’ Frontline documentary, company leaders...
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Tim Mullaney
Aug 05, 2013
Emeritus Senior Living is focused on increasing communications to address concerns raised by a critical Frontline documentary that aired last week, according to Granger Cobb, the company’s CEO, president...
Federal authorities are investigating Emeritus’ Medicaid billings, ProPublica reports
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Tim Mullaney
Feb 28, 2014
Federal investigators have been looking into Medicaid billing practices at senior living giant Emeritus Corp. for more than a year. Investigative journalism outlet ProPublica first reported the story Thursday,...
Median cost of a private nursing home room now exceeds $87,000 a year, Genworth survey finds
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Tim Mullaney
Apr 03, 2014
The median annual cost of a private nursing home room in the United States has increased to $87,600, according to the latest annual survey from insurance company Genworth. This represents a 4.4% increase...
Routine assessment predicts when Alzheimer’s patients will need nursing home care, researchers...
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Tim Mullaney
Nov 08, 2013
Clinicians can use a new assessment to determine when an Alzheimer’s patient is likely to need nursing home care, according to researchers based at Columbia University Medical Center.
Nursing homes suffering from reimbursement shifts to home care, market analysis finds
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Tim Mullaney
May 14, 2014
Reimbursement is shifting to home health, hurting the finances of skilled nursing facilities, a newly released market analysis states.
Salary growth slowed, vacancy rates increased in 2013, assisted living report shows
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 29, 2014
Assisted living administrators earned a median salary of $78,000 in 2013, according to the newly released 2013-2104 Assisted Living Salary & Benefits report.
Frontline, Emeritus and the question of empathy
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Tim Mullaney
Aug 20, 2013
It’s easier to have empathy for people if you know specific things about them. Long-term care providers know this, and it is behind many valuable programs to learn more about residents’ lives....
Assisted living residents say ‘homelike’ setting not so important
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Tim Mullaney
Oct 30, 2014
Contrary to conventional wisdom, assisted living residents might not place a high value on how “homelike” their surroundings are, suggest findings out of St. Catherine University in St. Paul,...
Assisted living residents cannot sue under nursing home law in New Jersey, federal court rules
By
Tim Mullaney
Feb 05, 2014
A state law to protect nursing home residents cannot be invoked to bring a suit against an assisted living provider, a federal judge recently ruled, reversing his earlier decision.