AdventHealth is exiting Florida’s nursing home market citing the costs necessary to run such facilities as exceeding what the company is willing to invest. The health system, which ranks as the state’s largest by member hospitals, validated on Tuesday that it sold all ten of its skilled nursing facilities to third-party operators. Eight were located in Florida, while a single facility was offloaded in both Texas and Kansas.
Changing the way our community receives health care, that’s a Savannah company’s philosophy for serving adults 65 and older. Seeing a need in the community, Scott and Amy Pierce opened Coastal Care Partners providing aging life care management, in-home care, and other health care needs for aging seniors. “My wife and I founded the company five years ago.
Delaware’s Long Term and Memory Care task force issued more than a dozen recommendations this for improving staffing, oversight and transparency at long-term care facilities after a year-long review -- the first such review of Delaware's long-term care industry in two decades. Lawmakers launched the task force amid reports of dire staffing shortages, growing reliance on temporary workers and poor communication with families within Delaware’s long-term care industry – a topic of increasing concern with the state’s senior population projected to grow by more than 150 percent by 2050.
Staffing shortages in Iowa nursing homes remain “alarmingly high” and are almost twice the national average, according to the state director of AARP Iowa. Brad Anderson says staffing shortages can lead to poor resident care and, in some unfortunate cases, serious neglect. “Forty-two percent of (Iowa) nursing homes are experiencing a staffing shortage, compared to the national average of 22%,” Anderson says, “which obviously has an enormous impact on resident care.” One reason for the high rate of staffing shortages in Iowa is too many nursing home beds for staff to cover, he says, especially in rural areas.
Governor Ned Lamont and Aging and Disability Services Commissioner Amy Porter announced that the Connecticut Department of Aging and Disability Services has been awarded $10 million in funding from the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) that will be used to support upgrades and enhancements at senior centers statewide in Connecticut. The state is designating $9 million of this funding to be distributed to municipalities. The municipalities can use the funding to support upgrades at their local senior centers through facility improvements and programming.
peopleCare Tavistock has officially broke ground on its new 128-bed long-term care home. Company CEO Brent Gingrich joined Oxford MPP Ernie Hardeman and Ontario Minister of Long-Term Care Paul Calandra Friday to celebrate the start of construction on the Oxford County care home, which is expected to be ready to welcome its first residents in late 2024.