Category: Assisted Living
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NCAL Releases Assisted Living State Regulator Review
Despite budget issues impacting most states, 18 different states reported making regulator or policy changed during the last year according to the National Center for Assisted Living. At least six states made major changes including Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas. Focal points of state assisted living policy development include life safety, disclosure [...]
PointClickCare Receives PE Investment to Expand LTC Software
PointClickCare, a provider of electronic health record (EHR) platform, received a minority strategic investment from Baltimore- and San Diego-based JMI Equity, a leading software and healthcare IT growth equity firm. With the investment, the company will continue to expand the company’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) product offerings and advance its market leadership through organic and inorganic growth. PointClickCare’s web-based [...]
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60% of Caregivers Made Errors When Sorting Medications says NW Study
More than one-third of caregivers had difficulty reading and understanding health-related information and directions, while sixty percent made errors when sorting medications into pillboxes according to a new study by Northwestern University. In a first-of-its-kind study, nearly 100 paid, non-family caregivers were recruited in the Chicago area and their health literacy levels and the health-related [...]
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Frontline Home Health Care Worker Wages Continue to Fall says Report
A new analysis of direct care workforces shows that wages and benefits for frontline health care workers is inadequate. “The problematic quality of direct-care jobs continues to undermine America’s capacity to produce a caregiving workforce that can deliver the basic hands-on services and supports demanded by millions of elders and persons with disabilities needing assistance [...]
States Get $3.7 Billion to Provide Long Term Care Services from HHS
States will see additional funding from the Affordable Care Act to help move Medicaid beneficiaries out of institutions and into their own homes or other community settings now and in the near future. The Affordable Care Act provides additional funding for two programs supporting that goal, the Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration program and the [...]
Clearview Capital Completes Another Add-on Acquisition for Senior Care Centers of America
Senior Care Centers of America, Inc., a portfolio company of Clearview Capital, LLC, has completed the acquisition of the adult daycare division of South Jersey Health Systems. The transaction closed on March 1, 2011. Senior Care Centers of America is the premier provider of adult day health services in the United States with a total [...]
Health Care REIT Acquires Virtually All of Genesis Assets for $2.4 Billion
Health Care REIT (NYSE:HCN) signed a definitive agreement to acquire almost all of the real estate assets of privately-owned Genesis HealthCare (Genesis) for $2.4 billion last week. Genesis, a leading provider of short-term post-acute, rehabilitation, assisted living and long-term care services, will continue to operate the facilities pursuant to a long-term triple-net master lease said a statement. HCN [...]
