While some aging services providers last week warned that more scrutiny of healthcare consolidation and rules that seek to limit it further could create “unintended consequences,” others encouraged...
Feds blur nursing home ownership lines with new transparency rule: critics
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 14, 2023
Some nursing home owners and advocates on Monday criticized federal officials for lumping together private equity investors and healthcare-focused real estate investment trusts in its yearlong focus on...
Robust ownership data could drive healthier nursing home deals: study author
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 21, 2023
Greater insight into potential buyers is just one possible benefit of proposed rules that would make publicly available more information about private equity and real estate investment trust ownership...
Private equity in the crosshairs: Administration continues to question role of private equity in LTC
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Tom Barnard
Alison Schurick
Kathleen R. Salsbury
Sabrina Marquez
Mar 13, 2023
Over the past year, the Biden administration has expressed serious doubts about the developing role of private equity investment in the long-term care industry. In a Fact Sheet released in late February...
Also in the News for Friday, Dec. 8
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 08, 2023
Support, data, immigration reform necessary to address caregiver workforce shortage … Senate launches investigation into private equity health system investment … Lawmakers propose $62 million grant...
BREAKING: Congressional study eviscerates for-profit nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 21, 2022
Dire conditions inside for‑profit nursing home chains contributed to deadly, early-pandemic conditions inside facilities, while “convoluted corporate structures” may have helped companies “obscure...
Lawmakers pass on increasing nursing home staffing minimums but hike transparency requirements
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Jessica R. Towhey
Jun 20, 2023
Connecticut’s nursing home owners will be required to disclose ties to private equity companies or real estate investment trusts under new state rules.
Skilled nursing private equity deals declined significantly in 2023, but some signs point up
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Josh Henreckson
Feb 13, 2024
In a year marked by high interest rates and increased federal scrutiny, private equity and real estate investment trusts finalized fewer skilled nursing deals in 2023 than in any year since the COVID-19...
Public officials and consumer groups have alleged negative effects of private equity’s ownership of nursing homes. But those investors also are squeezing providers themselves through a critical mechanism:...
Even as prevalence shrinks, PE chaos tarnishes nursing home sector
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 05, 2023
The plight of a private-equity backed, multi-state nursing home chain demonstrates the ugly challenges operators could face as officials ratchet up regulatory and transparency pressures and large-scale...