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Senior housing developers have been ready to go for months—even years, for some—and while there’s no immediate danger of overdevelopment, cautious lenders may function as a safeguard against repeating a boom-and-bust cycle. The annual senior housing inventory growth...

Deep in the inner ear of mammals is a natural battery — a chamber filled with ions that produces an electrical potential to drive neural signals. In today’s issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology, a team of researchers from MIT, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear...

Hundreds of nursing home residents in New York City's storm-battered Rockaways section are being evacuated ahead of a storm expected to bring more bad weather to the region. State and city health officials said Tuesday that three nursing homes and an adult care center...

Taking care of the elderly is never an easy job, but doing so in a crisis situation such as the double whammy of super storm Sandy and Wednesday’s nor’easter is particularly challenging. “From the nursing home perspective, one has to do all of the things that you have...

What goes up must come down, except when you’re talking about the cost of long-term care. A study soon to be released by MetLife’s Mature Market Institute says expenses continued to rise faster than inflation in the last year for most long-term care services,...

The overall retention rate for all assisted living employees was 73% in 2011, a new survey from a provider group finds. The average turnover rate for all AL workers was 25%, with the highest rates being in food services (26%) and nursing staff (29%), according to a...

NEW YORK -- The staff and residents of at least five nursing homes on the coastal edge of this storm-battered city were told by New York officials to stay put in advance of Hurricane Sandy, even though the facilities were in a mandatory evacuation zone and are just...

As news of the impending “perfect storm” began to circulate, Prime Source began preparations to help clients get ready to weather the Hurricane. Thanks to the critical measures put in place and the selfless efforts of the entire Prime Source team, the impact of the...

Area-wide disasters such as hurricanes can leave long term care facilities and hospitals out of business indefinitely. If your facility suffered Hurricane related damage or is looking to prepare contingency plans for future events, please contact Prime Source today....

Relationships between healthcare organizations and physicians are a growing trend within the industry as more doctors become employees of hospitals. Building healthy working relationships between the two factions is important, says David Ebel, who retired from the...