In an email to employees on Thursday, Bill Gassen, president and CEO of Good Sam parent company Sanford Health, said that requiring Good Sam and other Sanford employees to get a “game-changing vaccine” is “the right thing to do.”
Riverview Retirement Community in Spokane, WA, has a 98% COVID vaccination rate among residents, but an outbreak has occurred among the vaccinated. Despite varied symptoms, cases so far have not been severe, the CEO says.
Operating through the pandemic was like working with a ghost that was impossible to grasp, leading to feelings of failure among senior living and care leaders. But the pandemic also refocused priorities.
A federal judge has denied a motion by former American Senior Communities CEO James Burkhart to throw out his felony fraud convictions, ruling that his law firm’s conflict of interest did not adversely affect his defense in the $19.4 million fraud case.
Industry advocates and the CDC answer key questions: How to facilitate a smooth transition to a new vaccine supplier; and how to guarantee second doses for staff and residents who receive their first dose at the final onsite vaccine clinics.
Atria Senior Living and Juniper Communities say that mandating vaccinations is the responsible thing to do, and the quickest route to re-engaging with community life.
Independent living residents, even those who live in CCRCs, will have to continue to wait for COVID-19 vaccination, according to one of the retail giants administering the vaccines in long-term care.
David R. Linz, M.D., chief medical informatics officer for NCH Healthcare Systems, has been named site lead physician at Moorings Park’s Center for Healthy Living in Naples, FL. Linz is a core faculty member of NCH Healthcare System’s internal medicine residency program and has academic appointments at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science…
Tomas Mendez has been named vice president of operations for Frasier, a not-for-profit life plan community in Boulder, CO. He will oversee all resident services and programs throughout the 20-acre community and will work to support and enhance Frasier’s recently completed $100 million expansion. Mendez comes to Frasier from Franke at Seaside in Mount Pleasant,…
Karl Snider and Ron Mackey have been named vice presidents at Missouri-based The Baptist Home. The announcement comes as part of the third phase of an ongoing strategic planning and organizational realignment spearheaded by Rodney Harrison, D.Min., the company’s president; Glenn Miller, D.Ed.Min., of Miller Management; and Randy Mayes of DRYVE Leadership Group. Snider, a…
