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During Argentum’s recent Public Policy Institute in Washington, DC, Senior Vice President of Public Policy Maggie Elehwany and Vice President of Government Relations Paul Williams discussed Argentum’s legislative priorities for the 119th Congress, as well as updates to its public policy paper highlighting the value of assisted living. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswi...

Investors in the seniors housing and care space have always seemed to make skilled nursing a second-thought customer. Now, however, the demographics have become so positive, even skilled nursing is enjoying more time in the spotlight — and it should for a long time to come. That’s according to Bill Kauffman, a senior principal at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care, who keeps...

Esther Cromwell founded the first Haven Family Care Home in 2005 after realizing her passion for older adults while helping a widowed neighbor. She began researching what goes into senior care facilities and realized more could be done. Today, Haven Family Care is Avendelle Assisted Living, with 18 locations in North Carolina and Virginia, serving as a bridge between home and skilled nursing care....

In this episode of the Reimagining Senior Living and Long-Term Care series, Jim sits down with Allison Rainey, Head of Nursing and Clinical Informatics at MatrixCare, to discuss a side of technology that often gets overlooked–when is it too much? While technology plays a critical role in supporting staff, too many disconnected systems, overwhelming amounts of data, and inefficient workflows can le...

R. Tamara Konetzka, PhD, the Louis Block Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago, has been studying the intersection of Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) and Medicare. Her research has found that when dual eligibles use Medicaid HCBS they are more likely to use home health versus skilled nursing facilities after hospitalizations. Konetzka also is fascinate...

The Biden administration over the last three years spearheaded efforts to rein in Medicare Advantage plans’ use of prior authorizations to deny care and cut short coverage for nursing homes. But at the end, it also left some pretty substantial decisions on the table for the incoming Trump team — seen by many as pro-Medicare Advantage. In this episode, Nicole Fallon, vice president of integrated se...

In this podcast episode, we dive deep into the world of practitioner efficiency and explore practical strategies for maintaining and enhancing it within your practice group. Laurie Bergeron, VP Product Management, PointClickCare, and Darcy Koehn, Chief Population Health Officer, Peak Healthcare, discuss specific strategies and tools, and the crucial role technology plays in streamlining workflows....

Matt Derrick, managing partner of Denver-based Confluent Senior Living, discusses baby boomers, supply and demand challenges, key growth markets and the future of senior living. "For 2026 and beyond, the sky is the limit for senior housing developers," he says. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for ad...

Medically Home, which provides a decentralized hospital-at-home program, has been in business over 10 years and has 20 health systems across 18 states. The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, instituted during the pandemic, has helped the company grow more swiftly, Medically Home CEO Graham Barnes said. Given that the Congressional Budget has scored the waiver budget-neutral, and it is popular amo...

Comfort Keepers, which has more than 600 locations in the United States and Canada, aims to “elevate the human spirit.” That mission permeates every aspect of the company's operations — from its approach to client care to its selection of franchises, according to Scott Oaks, vice president of franchise development for the companion and personal care company. To recruit and retain strong franchisee...

LeadingAge has formally asked the incoming presidential team to repeal the federal nursing home staffing mandate adopted by the Biden White House. “The staffing mandate, we are expecting it to be repealed, and we are asking the administration to repeal the staffing mandate,” said Janine Finck-Boyle, vice president of health policy and regulatory affairs for LeadingAge. “We have moved definitely in...

Julie Ward, senior executive officer of public policy for The Arc, feels a strong sense of urgency to help protect the Medicaid program and its home- and community-based services (HCBS) from impending cuts. For people with disabilities, she noted, HCBS is a lifeline. If HCBS is cut, it will force people into institutions and cause hardships for families. The HCBS program is currently grappling wit...

Discover how senior care communities can prioritize resident and staff safety with dedicated emergency response solutions. In this episode, we explore the critical role of highly trained emergency dispatchers in delivering compassionate, reliable support—from elevator safety to risk mitigation—freeing nursing staff to focus on exceptional care while enhancing safety, reliability, and peace of mind...

Thanks to monitoring technology, Griswold has learned just how often clients fall when caregivers are not in the home, CEO Michael Slupecki said. This technology also has helped to provide insights into whether caregivers and patients are getting along and whether patients are confused about their medications. This type of data not only helps to improve the experience for patients, it also provide...

Remember when the iPhone transformed our understanding of what a phone could be? There's a similar revolution brewing in LTC admissions. Tune in to explore how leading facilities are reimagining the first 24 hours of care—turning a fragmented process into an experience that's beautifully simple, yet remarkably powerful. Ari Shabat, Reside Admissions' CEO, reveals how Admissions 3.0 sets a new stan...

Mary Munoz manages the western region of Ziegler's senior living practice, where she specializes in financing senior living mergers and acquisitions, and in stragegic and capital planning consulting services. On the cusp of her impending retirement from Zieger, Mary shares her unique perspective as both an expert and a consumer, how she's seen the industry change over time, and her predicitons for...

Discover how data analytics are transforming senior living, enhancing resident care, improving operational efficiency and driving innovation. Learn actionable insights that will shape the future of this evolving industry. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Joseph Kitonga, founder & CEO of Vitable Health, joins us from the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s 2024 Conference where he shares how his parents’ experience running a home care agency led him to create Vitable, a company designed to help home care agencies offer affordable health benefits to their employees. We also dive into why home health care businesses are among the most like...

All team members at skilled nursing facilities have a stake in getting the ever-evolving MDS stipulations right. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is collecting more information than ever before, and they’re studying it for patterns more rigorously than ever. Consider MDS processes another example of high-risk management, and it shouldn’t be taken lightly. That’s the view of Leah Klusch...

Not live from the AHCA/NCAL conference in Orlando, FL, where he was to be a speaker, Stan Szpytek, president of Fire and Life Safety Inc., discusses what senior living providers must do to prepare for natural disasters and man-made events. He also shares problems that can occur when communities decorate for the holidays. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for inf...

Tom Grape, founder, chairman and CEO of Benchmark Senior Living talks about advocating for the senior living industry, fighting cost creep, settings rates and what's ahead for Benchmark and senior living in general. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Liz Fandel, chief marketing and innovation officer of FellowshipLIFE, shares thoughts about the changing expectations of senior living residents and prospective residents, ways that providers are marketing to them and their families, ideas for improving those efforts, and more. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of per...

Providers who’ve been waiting on the sidelines in a lending environment that felt nearly impossible are already coming to the table, ready to make new deals, after the Federal Reserve made its first rate cut in four years on Sept. 18. That’s the report from Tami Antebi, the New York-based senior vice president and head of healthcare for global bank BHI. “They’ve been looking forward for the last y...

Darcy Santos, national director of resident programming for Five Star Senior Living, has spent the past five years fostering meaningful connections with residents and teams across the country through Five Star’s EPIC Living program. The holistic program, inspired by four dimensions of wellness — emotional, physical, intellectual, community — helps older adults manage changes and prevent common age...