Apparently, much of the country would prefer to pretend COVID-19 doesn’t exist.
Expert warns: Upcoming flu plus COVID-19 season will be ‘like nothing we’ve seen before’
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Liza Berger
Aug 17, 2020
This year’s looming flu season, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, is going to present a new range of challenges, one of the leading pharmacy quality experts in the country said late last week.
Private equity’s reckoning
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Liza Berger
Aug 12, 2020
In my second installment of “Things we can learn from the pandemic,” COVID-19 may force private equity to take a good, hard look at what it is doing in the skilled nursing space.
McKnight’s 40 for 40: Wendy Simpson
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Liza Berger
Aug 10, 2020
When Wendy Simpson joined the board of real estate investment trust LTC Properties in 1995, she now admits, she was a tad green about long-term care financing. It sure didn’t take long for Simpson to...
Online Forum tackles issues of skin integrity, infection control and staffing amid COVID-19 on Tuesday
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Liza Berger
Aug 07, 2020
McKnight’s is continuing its campaign to provide education about operating successfully under COVID-19 conditions. Its sixth Online Forum on the subject will take place Tuesday (Aug. 11).
‘McKnight’s’ webinar to address flu season, COVID-19
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Liza Berger
Aug 06, 2020
Providers who are concerned about the upcoming fall, when the flu season will begin to dovetail with the pandemic, will want to tune into an upcoming McKnight’s webinar. “When COVID-19 and...
A push in the right direction for long-term care
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Liza Berger
Aug 05, 2020
Crises have tendencies to expose fault lines. This pandemic has been no different. Take long-term services and supports. The cracks were there, but it took a massive emergency, i.e., COVID-19, to lay them...
Lab tests for COVID-19 ‘nearly useless’ again due to slow turnaround times: Genesis CMO
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Liza Berger
Aug 04, 2020
Due to the slow lab turnaround times for COVID-19 tests, delivery of point-of-care diagnostic testing instruments and tests from the federal government comes at the right time. That’s the word from the...
Leadership is like bodybuilding: Stretch muscle ‘beyond capability,’ panelist offers
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Liza Berger
Aug 03, 2020
Balancing life and career and moving ahead were two main subjects of “Finding the Secret Sauce,” the opening session of the McKnight’s Women of Distinction Forum on Wednesday.
Not so fast: Providers must check to make sure their state permits POC COVID-19 testing devices, guidance...
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Liza Berger
Jul 31, 2020
As nursing homes wait for point-of care testing instruments and supplies to arrive from the federal government, they first should make sure they are complying with state public health guidelines regarding...