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December 10, 2020, Maggie Flynn, Skilled Nursing News - With an official recommendation that health care workers and long-term care facility residents be prioritized when a vaccine is approved, the next issue becomes getting them their shots — and ensuring they feel safe taking them.
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December 9, 2020, Steve Monroe, The SeniorCare Investor - The nursing home sector came under heavy criticism, and we might say “heavy-handed” criticism, during this pandemic, especially in the early months. Many of the naysayers, especially the media (hey New…
December 9, 2020, Ben Swett, The SeniorCare Investor - In a sign of the times, tough times, Brookdale Senior Living just announced its November occupancy results, and the numbers are sobering. Average occupancy for the month was 72.8%, a drop…
December 9, 2020, Steve Monroe, The SeniorCare Investor - After spending the summer and fall months trading at 50 to 70 cents a share, Capital Senior Living‘s shares zoomed up last week. If anyone was watching the stock market last week, you had to notice that Capital Senior…
December 1, 2020, Maggie Flynn, Skilled Nursing News - A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory committee on immunization on Tuesday voted to recommend that health care personnel and long-term care residents get first priority…
December 1, 2020, Steve Monroe, The SeniorCare Investor - To succeed this decade, seniors housing and care will have to deal with its wage structure in order to succeed. The title today, Let’s Talk About Higher Wages, was actually the title of last Sunday’s editorial in The…
November 30, 2020, Maggie Flynn, Skilled Nursing News - Some aspects of the nursing home world do not change even during a global pandemic, and that includes the need to manage relationships with multiple payers. Several managed care organizations (MCOs) are now sending in their new contracts…
November 29, 2020, Ben Swett, The SeniorCare Investor - After an attempt to replace its 282-bed skilled nursing facility in Town and Country, Missouri (St. Louis MSA) with a senior living community, and then running into zoning and planning problems earlier this year, National HealthCare…
November 29, 2020, Alex Spanko, Skilled Nursing News - The nation’s long-term care facilities passed another grim COVID-19 milestone ahead of Thanksgiving, with experts and leaders warning that holiday gatherings over this past weekend could only set off more outbreaks in the weeks to come. …