ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland legislators have proposed a bill — HB576 — that would require video surveillance within assisted living and nursing home facilities in the state, with the aim of detecting abuse, neglect and exploitation of residents. This follows several incidences of mistreatment in Maryland. Under the legislation, operators would be required to install and maintain video surveillance equipment within facility common areas. Private spaces and areas where residents receive medical care or nursing services would be exempt from surveillance requirements. According to the Maryland General Assembly’s website, the bill …
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Webinar — 2025 Seniors Housing Outlook: Investment, Valuations & Capital
The Dec. 12 webinar “2025 Seniors Housing Outlook — Investment, Valuations & Capital,” sponsored by CBRE, featured expert insight on issues shaping the seniors housing sector. The panel discussion covered investment outlooks, the impact of inflation, capital availability, labor stability and regulatory concerns. This webinar brought together industry leaders to discuss critical economic factors, value-based care and development opportunities in the ever-changing seniors housing landscape. The discussion offers a detailed analysis of operational challenges facing the sector, including rising insurance costs and regulatory headwinds. Before 2025 begins, learn more about …
SKOKIE, Ill. — Covenant Living Communities and Services, a Skokie-based nonprofit owner-operator, has promoted Cory Kallheim to general counsel. Kallheim replaces David Erickson, who was promoted to president and CEO. Kallheim has been with Covenant Living for more than two years serving as vice president and associate general counsel. In his new role, he will be responsible for overseeing all legal aspects of Covenant Living’s operations, ensuring the organization remains compliant with all relevant laws and regulations, while also supporting strategic initiatives. Prior to Covenant Living, Kallheim worked for more …
As the regulatory environment in the seniors housing and skilled nursing sectors becomes increasingly burdensome, leading advocates are pushing back on multiple fronts. By Jeff Shaw Seniors housing has always been a hot-button issue and a target for government regulation, given its role in caring for a vulnerable population of seniors with healthcare needs. Even by that standard, though, there are a lot of legislative challenges coming down the pike for owners and operators. • Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), chair of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, held a …
By Steve Nowak, Esq. Appraisal methodologies for financing seniors housing properties factor in more than real estate to produce amounts that exceed property-only value. That means seniors housing owners may be paying real-estate taxes on non-real-estate assets. Everyone can agree that a senior living operation — whether independent living, assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing or some combination — consists of a variety of assets. There are real estate assets (the land and building); personal property assets like furniture and kitchen equipment; and intangible business assets such as the work …
NEWARK, N.J. — Watermark Retirement Communities, an Arizona-based operator, has agreed to pay $4.3 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by soliciting and receiving a kickback from a nationwide home health agency (HHA) operator in order to facilitate referrals from Watermark retirement homes. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jordann Conaboy of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey led the investigation, as well as trial attorneys Daniel Meyler and Samson Asiyanbi of the Fraud Section. The United States alleged that the HHA operator purchased …
DES MOINES, Iowa — LCS, the nation’s third-largest senior living operator, has announced the promotion of Bridgette Uhlemann to senior vice president and general counsel at the Des Moines-based company. Uhlemann joined LCS in 2015 as a corporate governance manager. Since then, she has assumed responsibility and oversight for LCS legal affairs, including corporate governance, contract law, public policy, and corporate and regulatory compliance. Uhlemann directs the overall delivery of legal and compliance services to the organization, including in-house attorneys, compliance analysts and outside legal counsel. Her leadership was instrumental …
By Dan Lindberg, founder and principal, Applied Economic Insight Labor shortages took center stage for business leaders and economists across many sectors of the economy during the Great Resignation toward the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such shortages, however, are nothing new for seniors housing and care providers. While required staffing ratios and regulations add to this, at heart seniors housing is an operationally intensive business. It takes people to serve people. That said, labor is a two-sided coin. On the first side, we have staffing levels measured in terms …
CHICAGO — Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, a Chicago-based law firm with offices around the world, has neamed Adam Guetzow as co-practice group leader of the firm’s national healthcare practice. Guetzow will serve alongside current interim practice group leader Stephen Moore. As part of his new role, Guetzow will lead the firm’s strategic expansion of its current healthcare practice, including an emphasis on aging services and long-term care capabilities. Hinshaw’s aging services practice has grown exponentially in the past few years in response to industry expansion and a growing need for …
NEW ORLEANS — Although the proposed Safeguarding Elderly Needs for Infrastructure and Occupational Resources (SENIOR) Act never was passed by the federal government in 2022, the fight isn’t over. The goal of that act is to establish a $100 billion fund that builds upon critical infrastructure demands for infection prevention and control; invests in broadband and telehealth capabilities; creates a sustainability fund to ensure seniors’ long-term care needs are exceeded; and invests in workforce training and development. Argentum, an association for professionally managed senior living communities, hopes to bring back …
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