Senior Housing News February 28, 2022
Senior living providers are facing intense operational and financial challenges — but they must not let these pressures distract them from innovating for the future.
That’s according to Jill Vitale-Aussem, president and CEO of Christian Living Communities (CLC) and Cappella Management.
“We’re concerned about staffing, we’re concerned about wage escalation, we’re concerned about inflation,” she said during an appearance on Senior Housing News’ Transform podcast. “It could be easy sometimes to get bogged down in that; just keep your head down and never look up to the horizon and what’s coming. But there’s a lot to be excited about.”
The labor pressures are real — as evidenced by about $3 million in wage adjustments CLC is making for 2022. But...