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• Assisted Living Providers Improving Partnership Profiles With Electronic Records

  
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  Many assisted living residents are there because they need help managing their medications, and some senior living providers are moving toward electronic recordkeeping for medication administration in an effort to become more efficient and improve their care continuum partnership profile. 

For one community, ...
  3 days ago

• Study: Private-Pay Nursing Home Census Falls as Assisted Living Sector Grows

  
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  Seniors have multiple housing and care options available to them in various stages of existence, whether they’re emerging, developing, or have been around for some time. Considering this, it’s not surprising to learn that as assisted living has grown and evolved in the past two decades, it has had a “modest but ...
  3 days ago

• Increasing Community Involvement Through Volunteer Opportunities for Residents

  
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  Getting a retirement community more involved with the “outside” community-at-large can be as simple as coordinating volunteering activities for residents, and according to the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), there are plenty of 55+ people who want to get involved. More than 300,000 people ...
  3 days ago

• Senior Housing Finance Activity: HFF, Ventas, Oak Grove Capital, & More

  
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  Everest Real Estate Advisors Closes $12 Million Loan for Minn. Senior Housing Community Everest Real Estate Advisors, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., recently closed on a $12 million refinancing loan for Select Senior Living, a 90-bed senior housing facility in Coon Rapids, Minn., reports Real estate Journals ...
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• Harrison Street and Engel Burman to Buy Back Assisted Living Chain, Build More

  
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  Chicago-based private equity firm Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, LLC and development company The Engel Burman Group have agreed to purchase five senior living communities for $290 million from a Canadian-Australian joint venture partnership. Canadian REIT Chartwell Seniors Housing (TSX:CHS.UN) and ING Real ...
  3 days ago

• Assisted Living Providers Face Uphill Battle to Educate State Regulators

  
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  The assisted living concept has been around for roughly 25 years, but there’s still a struggle to educate policy makers and regulators at the state level about the industry, according to panelists at the Assisted Living Federation of America’s annual event held last week in Dallas, Tex. “The biggest barrier is ...
  4 days ago

• Instability in Healthcare Payment System Can Wreck Innovative Coordination Efforts

  
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  As healthcare reform begins to take effect, many care providers—including those in the senior care industry—are looking for innovative ways to improve care quality and reduce costs by coordinating care, but if Medicare payments remain unstable, it could prevent those efforts, according to post-acute care provider ...
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• Forbes: Will Adult Children be Forced to Pay Parents’ Nursing Home Bills?

  
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  The adult son of a former nursing home resident has been determined responsible for paying his mother’s $93,000 bill by a Pennsylvania appeals court, reports Forbes , and this might be the beginning of a new trend.  Pennsylvania is one of 30 states that have filial responsibility statutes—laws that impose a ...
  4 days ago

• In the Pipeline: Senior Housing Construction Projects (5/23/2012)

  
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  Construction: Planned Eastern Consolidated is marketing a 51.65-acre fully entitled development site in Brookhaven Long Island for $15 million, reports the National Real Estate Investor . The site includes approved plans for constructing a 408-unit senior housing project, Heritage Square Housing Development. The ...
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• Patting Ourselves on the Back

  
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  Just a little…did we mention that Cambridge had a record-setting 2011, closing 36 separate HUD Section 232 loan transactions totaling more than $331.9 million? We also expanded the portfolio of assisted living properties owned and managed by Cambridge Investment & Finance Company, our acquisition arm. Last year, ...
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• Affordable Senior Housing Option MEDCottage Makes Its Grand Debut, First Unit Placed

  
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  One of the latest innovations in affordable senior housing made its grand debut on Tuesday, May 22 when the first MEDCottage unit was placed in a Virginia family’s backyard. “Today, as 78 million baby boomers prepare for their senior years—potentially straining nursing homes and government-funded healthcare ...
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• CMS Fails to Use All Tools to Combat Home Healthcare Fraud

  
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  Home health care fraud has made national headlines recently with multi-million-dollar fraud busts having taken place in Dallas and the Miami area in the past several months. A hearing held in late April before the Senate Finance Committee addressed the issue and brought a new—albeit old—potential solution to ...
  5 days ago

• Q1 Earnings Highlights: Health Care REIT on Growing Post-Acute Care Platform

  
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  Healthcare real estate investment trust Health Care REIT (NYSE:HCN) recently released its first quarter earnings report and held an earnings call discussing the quarter; highlights include a focus on its partnership with Genesis HealthCare; increasing value through private pay portfolios; and growing a post-acute ...
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• Updated Guide “Demystifies” Financing Options for Nonprofit Senior Living Providers

  
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  As America’s older population grows, so does the demand for affordable senior housing—especially following the economic downturn. Considering nonprofit providers’ need to access capital at a reasonable cost in order to supply an increasingly necessary commodity, Lancaster Pollard recently updated its ...
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• Turnaround Corner—Troubled or Closing Senior Care Facilities

  
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  Here’s a list of possible turnaround opportunities for senior care facilities, ranging from troubled facilities that have lost or may lose Medicare/Medicaid licensing, to ones that have been shut down by the state, to places that plan to close their doors voluntarily for various reasons. This edition also includes ...
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• The Bridge to HUD Covers the Gap

  
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  Our connections with other senior housing lenders allow us to provide you with many options and resources to help you achieve your financial goals.  When a prospective borrower approaches Cambridge describing their financial needs, we gather information about the borrower and present it to various financing sources; ...
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• Senior Housing Design for the Future Involves “As Much Flexibility As Possible”

  
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  When designing or renovating new senior housing projects, there needs to be an emphasis on the ability to transition or convert between different kinds of care units, a panel of senior living industry executives agreed at a session during ALFA’s Community 2012 event, held last week in Dallas, Tex. “Build with as ...
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• Court Strikes Down NLRB’s Ambush Election Rule on Technical Glitch

  
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  A technical glitch provided the basis for Washington, D.C.’s U.S. District Court to strike down the National Labor Relations Board’s rule allowing “ambush” elections. Under the rule, which went into effect on April 30, union elections were allowed to take place in 14 days or less. Many argued that the ...
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• Time: Boomers Themselves Must Solve the Housing “Crisis”

  
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  Older adults are becoming an “unprecedentedly large” proportion of the United States’ census, with demographers predicting their ranks to swell to 20% of the overall population, says a Time Magazine article , and the Boomer generation needs to get past its selfish reputation and use its power for the common ...
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• Development Battles: Senior Living Facility on Sierra Bonita Still Breathing

  
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  Rayas Paradise Inc., an operator of assisted-living homes for the elderly, hasnt given up on its goal of building an 11-bed facility on Sierra Bonita Avenue near Fairfax, reports the Melrose Village Blog . The development would convert a 1920s duplex into a 4,636 square foot, two-story, 25 foot high residential care ...
  6 days ago

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