NIC Notes

Insights in Seniors Housing & Care

Market Trends  |  Senior Housing  |  Skilled Nursing

Enhanced Transparency with the New NIC Lending Trends Report

By: Anne Standish  |  August 25, 2021

The NIC Analytics team recently released the inaugural NIC Lending Trends report. The timely report provides first quarter 2021 data as well as nearly five years of data of senior housing and nursing care loan volumes and loan balances from a range of debt providers.

Ideas and Discussion  |  NIC Fall Conference  |  Senior Housing  |  Skilled Nursing

Senior Living Thought Leader Randy Bufford: “We Need to Invest in People”

By: NIC  |  August 20, 2021

What’s ahead for senior housing and care? Randy Bufford has some thoughts on the topic. As Founder and Chairman of Trilogy Health Services, Bufford is one of the thought leaders attending the 2021 NIC Fall Conference in Houston. The Conference is NIC’s first in-person convening of leaders in senior housing and care since the pandemic began.

COVID-19  |  Skilled Nursing  |  Skilled Nursing Tracker

The Pandemic is Not  Over for Skilled Nursing Facilities with Low Vaccination Rates

By: Omar Zahraoui  |  August 19, 2021

According to the most recent CMS data compiled by NIC’s Skilled Nursing COVID-19 Tracker, 4.8% of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) reported newly confirmed cases among residents for the week ending August 1, 2021. Half of these facilities had a vaccination rate among staff below 49%, which is 12 percentage points below the national average rate of staff fully vaccinated (60.7%) according to NIC’s Skilled Nursing Covid-19 Tracker.

Market Trends  |  NIC MAP Vision  |  Skilled Nursing

Skilled Nursing Occupancy Increases Further in May 2021

By: Bill Kauffman  |  August 11, 2021

Medicare RPPD down 2.4% from the high set in June 2020. NIC MAP® Data Service, powered by NIC MAP Vision, released its latest Skilled Nursing Monthly Report on August 5, 2021, which includes key monthly data points from January 2012 through May 2021.

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