New Holland’s Garden Spot Village earned high marks in multiple categories in U.S. News & World Report’s 2022-23 Best Senior Living ratings, announced this week.

Legend Senior Living recently broke ground on its Legend at Silver Creek personal care and memory care residence in Cumberland County, with a projected opening of July 2023.

Hershey-based Country Meadows Retirement Communities hired a new vice president of sales and marketing earlier this month. 

Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries has sold four of its eight senior living communities, including Frey Village in Middletown.

Construction has begun on York’s newest senior living community, believed to be the first in years. 

A recent survey of 18 Pennsylvania-based nursing homes, assisted living communities and personal care homes showed that respondents lost 18% of their workforce as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

WellSpan Health and senior living provider SpiriTrust Lutheran plan to work together to offer skilled nursing, rehabilitation, home care and hospice services.

Masonic Villages’ COO will be leaving the Elizabethtown-based senior living organization next month, to be replaced by the executive director of its Montgomery County location.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health released updated guidance for when skilled nursing facilities can reopen to visitors and when they should test their staff and residents for COVID-19.

Penn State Health announced a three-part strategy to support long-term care facilities and nursing homes throughout southcentral Pennsylvania after receiving $22.9 million from the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services.

All long-term care providers in the state, including nursing, personal care and assisted living facilities, are required to complete initial COVID-19 baseline testing on all staff and residents by July 24, according to a new order issued by the Wolf administration.

Nursing homes, personal care homes and other long-term care providers in the green phase of the state’s reopening plan will continue to have ongoing restrictions for at least 28 days after transitioning to green, according to the Pennsylvania departments of Health and human Services.

Gov. Tom Wolf signed a bill into law a bill that will provide $500 million in emergency funding to help long-term care providers stop the spread of COVID-19 in their facilities.

Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, has proposed legislation that would provide approximately $500 million to hospital systems to help lower the rate of COVID-19 related deaths in nursing and personal care homes.

Seeing the potential threat to Pennsylvania’s seniors living in long-term care homes, associations working with providers had to quickly respond and prepare their members for the worst.