Latest Senior Care Headlines
All the headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page, ordered by recency.
GE Still Grappling with Legacy Insurance Business
Jan 16 2018 // General Electric Co. will take a $6.2 billion charge for the fourth quarter as the manufacturing behemoth grapples with lingering problems in a legacy insurance business. The after-tax charge will be $7.5 billion when...
Report: Florida Nursing Home Temperatures After Irma Reached Sweltering Level
Jan 12 2018 // Florida regulators say temperatures rose to 99 degrees (37 Celsius) in a sweltering nursing home under investigation for the deaths of 12 residents after Hurricane Irma. A Sun Sentinel report says a document filed by the...
West Virginia Nursing Home Owes $124K in Back Pay to 500 Workers
Dec 27 2017 // A West Virginia nursing home and rehabilitation company has agreed to pay nearly $124,000 in back wages and damages to about 500 workers to resolve allegations that it violated overtime rules. The U.S. Department of Labor...
What to Know About the Senior Care Market
Dec 13 2017 // The aging U.S. population will create unprecedented demand for the senior living industry for decades to come and that opens the door for agents and brokers to grow their business in this sector. But understanding the...
Tennessee Fines Nursing Home $50K For Patient Deaths
Dec 4 2017 // Tennessee state inspectors found widespread neglect resulting in patients’ deaths at a nursing home that has been fined $50,000, the most of any such penalty ever imposed. The Commercial Appeal cites the inspection...
The Lowdown on Senior Living
Nov 29 2017 // The latest issue of Insurance Journal is dedicated to the senior living market and includes references to an in depth report on the industry by Argentum, the largest national association exclusively dedicated to the senior...
Four Missing in Pennsylvania Senior Home Inferno
Nov 22 2017 // Four people are missing and presumed dead following last week’s fire at a Pennsylvania senior living community. The massive blaze tore through Barclay Friends Senior Living Community in West Chester late Thursday,...
Florida Nursing Home to Congress: Patient Deaths After Hurricane Irma Not Staff’s Fault
Nov 22 2017 // A Florida nursing home under investigation for the deaths of 13 patients after Hurricane Irma says in a letter to Congress that staff members did everything possible but couldn’t overcome a lack of power to the...
The Senior Care Market Still Going Strong
Nov 20 2017 // The aging U.S. population will create unprecedented demand for the senior living industry for decades to come and that opens the door for agents and brokers to grow their business in this sector. But understanding the...
Liability Costs Continue to Rise for Long Term Care Industry
Nov 20 2017 // The cost of liability continues to increase for the long term care profession, according to the 2017 Long Term Care General Liability and Professional Liability Actuarial Analysis by Aon Risk Consulting and the American...
Active Shooter and Senior Living Risks
Nov 20 2017 // One area of emerging risk for many industries, including the long term care or senior living market, is active shooter risk. Not only are residents/patients at risk, but so are senior living facility employees. “An...
Court Sides with Florida Nursing Homes in Emergency Generator Battle With Gov
Oct 30 2017 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s push to force nursing homes to add generators in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma could be blocked after a judge ruled there was no pressing danger that justifies the order. Scott called for...
Court Sides with Florida Gov in Battle Over Nursing Home Generators
Oct 23 2017 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott has won the first round in a legal tug-of-war over his mandate that nursing homes and assisted living facilities install generators. The 1st District Court of Appeal on Thursday rejected a legal...
Florida Irma-Related Nursing Home Deaths Climb to 14
Oct 11 2017 // Two women who lived at a Florida nursing home that lost air conditioning during Hurricane Irma have died, bringing to 14 the number of fatalities linked to the home. Cecilia Franco, 90, and Francesca Andrade, 95, died from...
12th Nursing Home Resident Dies After Hurricane Irma-Related AC Outage
Oct 2 2017 // A 12th patient has died after being taken from an overheated Florida nursing home that lost its air conditioning during Hurricane Irma, officials confirmed on Friday. Dolores Biamonte, 57, died Thursday night, according to...
Willis Towers Watson Launches Active Shooter Program for Senior Living Facilities
Sep 28 2017 // Willis Towers Watson has introduced an Active Shooter/Armed Intruder Readiness Program for senior living communities. The Active Shooter/Armed Intruder Readiness Program is designed to help senior living communities plan...
Scott Issues Emergency Order to Florida Nursing Homes After 11 Patient Deaths
Sep 25 2017 // After 11 nursing home residents died in the sweltering heat of hurricane-induced power outages, Florida’s nursing home industry is now on a collision course with Gov. Rick Scott. Days after Hurricane Irma ravaged the...
Florida Suspends License of Nursing Home After 9th Patient Dies
Sep 22 2017 // Florida officials have suspended the license of a nursing home that had nine patients die after Hurricane Irma knocked out its air conditioning. The Agency for Health Care Administration said Wednesday that it suspended...
Unlicensed Health Insurance Companies Targeting Delaware Seniors
Sep 21 2017 // Senior citizens are being warned to be on the lookout for unlicensed health insurance companies in Delaware. The companies have been marketing and selling plans to residents of long-term care and nursing home facilities in...
What Went Wrong at Florida Nursing Home Where 8 Residents Died
Sep 18 2017 // The first 911 call from the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills didn’t sound ominous: A nursing home patient had an abnormal heartbeat. An hour later, came a second call: a patient had trouble breathing. Then...
