Finance

Forging long-term care and home health partnerships

Building partnerships with companies offering strategic services can increase your business, improve operations, track data and increase referrals. Read More »

One-on-one with…Scott McFadden

After years of losses, turning around a financially failing nursing home takes more than stopgap measures, explains Scott McFadden, CEO of Lutheran Home & Hardwood Place. Read More »

Sales versus marketing

As more communities feel the economic pressure to sell units and maintain census, the focus increasingly is on sales and marketing teams. Read More »

NCB launches lending program for PACE communities

The National PACE Association forges a lending partnership with National Cooperative Bank to provide new funding opportunities for PACE expansions and startups. Read More »

UnitedHealth Group announces new leadership team

UnitedHealth Group has announced changes to its senior leadership team, and Gail Boudreaux has announced her departure as executive vice president of UnitedHealth Group and CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Read More »

Omega Healthcare buys Aviv REIT in $3B blockbuster deal

Two of the largest healthcare real estate companies merge to create one of the country's most powerful real estate forces. Read More »

CCRCs: Navigating rough financial waters

So, you built it, and they haven’t come (yet). How will you parlay your continuing care retirement community (CCRC) investments? Financial experts and long-term care CEOs provide tips on how to keep your CCRC in the black. Read More »

Operational challenges, opportunities identified in survey

A new survey of senior living executives reveals top issues they are facing as well as their concerns and expectations related to their investment portfolios. Read More »

Kindred, Gentiva to merge

Kindred Healthcare and Gentiva Health Services will merge in a $1.8 billion transaction that will create the fourth-largest healthcare employer in the country. Read More »

LTSS quality important to evaluate: report

A new report highlights the importance of evaluating the quality of long-term services and supports in independent and assisted living, skilled nursing, home health and hospice environments. Read More »

Partnering for post-acute care

The second part of our two-part series on post-acute strategies and tactics examines how post-acute care providers can partner to succeed in an integrated network. Read More »

Your unused drugs can benefit your facility, those in need

Skilled nursing facilities and assisted living communities seeking to improve efficiencies and finances while helping the less fortunate and contributing to sustainability efforts may find an ally in a California-based nonprofit organization.  Read More »

Home health workers protest in 5 cities

The aim of the protests matches some goals of two organizations working on behalf of home health workers. Read More »

Direct-care worker campaign raises $3.4 million

The Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute is more than a third of the way to its $9 million goal in a campaign with the ultimate purpose of improving the jobs of nursing home assistants, home health aides and personal care aides. Read More »

Project Survival 101: Managing refurbs and expansions

Are remodels or construction upheavals in your future? Intelligent project planning can get your refurbs done without bulldozing your residents’ lives. [Includes photo gallery] Read More »

Great (CCRC) expectations

Consumer demands and the promise of millions of incoming baby boomers have triggered expansions and new construction in senior living communities. But how many of them will go bankrupt before the boomers get there? Read More »

3 ways to improve the health of your referral relationships

You can learn a lot from those who love you, those who like you and those who hate you. Put that knowledge to work to improve your financial well-being. Read More »

New venture fund targets ‘Longevity Economy’

It’s not news that America is aging—and rapidly. The aging marketplace will present itself with a growing number of opportunities in providing supports, services and care campuses. Read More »

More PEPPERs available now

Long-term acute care hospitals, freestanding inpatient rehabilitation facilities, hospices, partial hospitalization programs and some skilled nursing facilities can now access their Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports electronically. Read More »

CMS to launch code set library for assessment data standardization

MDS 3.0, LTCH-CARE, OASIS... Every segment of long-term and post-acute care uses a coding system to document care actions. But with the new pressure on data standardization, which code set will prevail? Read More »

Ventas acquisition to make it largest healthcare REIT

Real estate investment trust (REIT) Ventas Inc. will acquire all of the outstanding shares of American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust Inc. in a $2.6 billion stock and cash transaction that will make it the largest healthcare REIT in the country. Read More »

Kindred targets Gentiva

Kindred Healthcare launches a hostile takeover bid for Gentiva Health Services. Read More »

Brookdale and HCP partner in a $1.2 billion CCRC joint venture

Pending regulatory approval, Brookdale Senior Living’s billion-dollar deal positions it to become the largest senior living provider in the country. Read More »

Top financial worries of seniors

What financial worries keep residents and prospective residents up at night? New survey results are revealing. Read More »

Administrators not fans of P4P, study finds

Many nursing home administrators are not convinced that pay-for-performance initiatives will increase revenues or improve quality, according to a new study. Read More »

Capitalizing on HUD Section 232 financing

Insured mortgage loans for assisted living and skilled nursing are good opportunities—but the offers won’t be around forever. Read More »

Survey details SNF, ALF rates

Results of a new survey provide daily, monthly or annual rates for care provided by nursing homes, assisted living facilities and home healthcare and adult day care providers. How does your state compare? Read More »

Chief economist a first for NIC

The National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry has named what it says is the first chief economist for the organization and industry. Read More »

LTC insurance premiums can be tax-deductible

If a prospective resident were to ask you about the tax deductibility of long-term care insurance premiums, would you know what to tell him or her? Read More »

Home care workforce set to explode by 2022

Twice as many direct-care jobs will be available in home care than in skilled nursing homes by 2022. How will you compete for direct-care workers? Read More »