100-Year-Old WWII Veteran Honored with Dream Flights
A Brookdale Bakersfield resident and WWII veteran flew on a restored WWII-era biplane through Dream Flights. Operation September Freedom is the last mission this year by non-profit Dream Flights. The organization has been taking WWII veterans for rides on WWII-era Stearman biplanes to honor them and their service.
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Long-term care facilities ready for booster shots
Modern Healthcare covers the latest booster shot news featuring comments from Brookdale CEO Cindy Baier and Chief Nursing Officer Kim Elliott. [Modern Healthcare Subscription Required]
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Moving to a long-term care facility during delta: What you need to know
Wondering how this phase of the pandemic is affecting long term care facilities? Experts offer safety advice and insight. Including, Brookdale Senior Living's Director of Optimum Life Engagement Carol Cummings. Read more at Care.com.
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Senior Housing Industry Faces Higher Costs as It Plays Lead Role in Vaccine Requirements
Check out The Wall Street Journal's take on the senior living industry's move to require vaccination for staff and the state of the labor market. Featuring comments from Brookdale's CEO Cindy Baier. [Subscription Required] Read more here.
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Brookdale’s “Ask an Expert” Session Features Meharry Medical College Leaders
The "Ask an Expert” session featured Dr. James Hildreth and Dr. Veronica Mallett.
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Two Brookdale Execs Named “Health Care Innovators”
The Nashville Business Journal has selected two Brookdale executives for recognition in the publication’s 2021 Health Care Innovation Awards.
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Brookdale Promotes COVID-19 Safety With New Series of Videos With VUMC Infectious Diseases Expert
Brookdale's video with, Dr. David Aronoff, MD, FIDSA, FAAM. Dr. Aronoff is the Director of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Brookdale CEO, Cindy Baier on CNBC's Power Lunch
Cindy Baier, Brookdale Senior Living CEO, joins ‘Power Lunch’ to discuss the company’s quarterly earnings and employee vaccine requirement. Watch the interview on CNBC.
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Brookdale adds chief nursing officer to C-suite
Brookdale Senior Living has added a chief nursing officer to its C-suite, promoting seven-year company veteran Kim Elliott to the role. Read more about Kim's appointment on the Nashville Post.
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Women Leaders Share Advice On Becoming CEO
Forbes Contributor Robert Reiss, inspired by the recent Women Business Collabrative CEO Roundtable, asked women leaders about lessons learned, advice on how to become a CEO and how men can help. Read more at Forbes.com where Brookdale CEO Cindy Baier, BNY Mellon Wealth Management CEO Catherine Keating and serial entreprenuer and investor Phyllis Newhouse share their wisdom for future leaders.
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Caregiver Andy Celis keeps life sweet for residents at Brookdale White Rock
Andy Celis is often the youngest person walking the floors of neighborhood assisted living facility Brookdale White Rock. He got his start in caretaking at an early age when his grandfather began facing declines in health from dementia. Celis cared for his grandfather through high school, and then decided to pursue caregiving as a career shortly after his passing. Working in the memory care field brings a sense of comfort to Celis, he said... To continue reading about Andy's calling in memory care and how we serves residents of Brookdale White Rock head over to the Lake Highlands Advocate.
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The Senior Living Stock That is an Overlooked Reopening Play
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Investors have picked over almost every reopening trade imaginable. But there is a fresh opportunity as the senior-living industry rebounds from an especially harsh pandemic blow. It wasn’t just that nursing homes and related facilities were early epicenters of Covid-19 outbreaks, which gave would-be customers an obvious reason not to send their relatives to one. The industry was also hit by the economic fallout from the pandemic: Demand for senior-living services is sensitive to the economy as residents and their families often need to come up with the money themselves, especially following the financial turmoil that has beset long-term-care insurance providers. Read more from Charley Grant and The Wall Street Journal.
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A Nobel Prize Trip to Sweden: Brookdale Resident Shares Experience in Lunch & Learn
Resident Jan Jordan shared photographs and stories from her trip with her husband to receive his Nobel Peace Prize.
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Instead of Bingo, Senior Housing Brings Opera Singers and Broadway Insiders to Residents
Enrichment classes are a dime a dozen in retirement facilities, but a crop of high-end senior living communities in New York City is offering next-level workshops, taught by local artists and experts from local museums and cultural institutions. “It is certainly a lot more than bingo,” said Andrew Young, a senior public relations specialist at Brookdale Senior Living, which operates nearly 700 senior housing facilities nationwide. At Brookdale Battery Park City, an independent living facility right on the Hudson River, residents have had the chance to attend lectures given by dancers from the New York City Ballet, who perform and talk about the history of a particular show and share details about their performances.
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Brookdale Tamarac Square Resident Takes First Place in Second Annual Poetry Contest
The poem “The American Spirit” by Hank Jaeckal, a 93-year-old resident at Brookdale Tamarac Square, was selected as the grand champion in Brookdale’s Second Annual National Poetry Challenge. More than 103 poems from Brookdale communities across the country were entered in the contest.
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