Top 10 housing projects worldwide in 2014 named

SAN FRANCISCO: The top 10 multigenerational apartment housing complexes which opened in 2014, have been nominated for a global award. All have been shortlisted on the basis that they sought to reorganise and improve the conditions in which we work and live. Read More »

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Affordable Care Act to drive U.S. capital off shore in search of bigger returns

PORTLAND: The three major ratings agencies have issued a negative outlook for the U.S. healthcare and hospital sector for 2015.

The anticipated downgrades are being driven by the ongoing uncertainties surrounding the implementation of Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Read More »

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Hotels pushing care sector out of medical tourism growth

NEW YORK: The decision by Action Hotels today to acquire a prime Dubai plot for $15.7m to build a 240 room hotel is another nail in the care sector coffin.

The site is in the centre of Dubai’s healthcare city. It will serve the burgeoning Read More »

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Nursing home owners may be liable for fraud, judge says

TAMPA: The owners of a multistate chain of nursing homes may have committed fraud by transferring liabilities to a shell company that later lost more than $2 billion in jury verdicts to families who claimed relatives died of neglect, a federal judge said in a Read More »

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