Blogs, Guest Columns, Things I Think and Living Leadership
Is the doctor in? Improve nursing homes with one easy stroke
By
Kenneth Lehmann
Apr 14, 2021
Many nursing home COVID-19 patients would have benefitted from daily, reimbursed-for physician visits in their skilled nursing facilities, but they were not entitled to them. With an epic crisis...
Rethinking quality care: A long-term care psychologist’s perspective
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Apr 13, 2021
At a time when there’s a greater push for community care over nursing and rehabilitation centers, it’s worth rethinking what quality means to the residents themselves. There are clear themes.
Want the media to work with you? Then work with them … the right way
By
Pam Selker Rak
Apr 12, 2021
As a marketing and public relations expert and educator in the healthcare industry for more decades than I care to admit, I’ve been struck by the “she said, he said” between the New York Times’...
The gardener leader
By
Martie Moore
Apr 10, 2021
Many times, as leaders, we do the time-is-short, chaotic, we just need to get the work done thing.
Providers, are you asking, ‘Show me your therapy minutes’?
By
Renee Kinder
Apr 08, 2021
It is a simple ask. It is the right ask. Show me your therapy minutes. The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have provided a bit of a pause to the anticipated review and audits we all anticipated seeing associated...
The CNAs are coming: Are you ready?
By
Lori Porter
Apr 07, 2021
It is doubtful that the framers of the constitution, when they drafted the First Amendment, had any idea that ensuring the “right of people to peaceably assemble” would include a virtual Zoom meeting...
Be present to listen
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Apr 06, 2021
I think one of the greatest tools in our customer service toolbelt is just taking the time to be present and listen to our customers. Whether that customer is our coworker, our resident, patient, family...
Pinpointing LTC enforcement trends as COVID-19 continues
By
Lauren F. Schoeberl
Apr 05, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has left an indelible mark on long-term care and skilled-nursing facilities. As COVID-19 cases continue to fall, regulatory and criminal enforcement agencies are now digesting...
NYT: You are as much of the problem as the Five-Star system
By
Steven Littlehale
Apr 02, 2021
A recent New York Times article about nursing homes is shameful, lazy journalism. Coupled with the need to sell advertising space, it purposefully perpetuates misunderstandings about nursing homes, caregivers...
Sleep like your life depends on it
By
Gary Tetz
Apr 01, 2021
One thing I’ve learned in my mostly unsuccessful lifelong quest to get enough sleep is that nothing helps more than feeling under pressure to do so. So learning in McKnight’s that extra sleep reduced...