A top long-term care executive candidly displayed the most important traits of great leadership Thursday, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.
It’s possible to put workers first without breaking the system
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 26, 2022
The demands on nursing home staff (and their right to demand more for themselves) threaten to break the system. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
A modest proposal for improving staffing and care
By
John O'Connor
Jan 24, 2022
Here’s my clean sheet of paper suggestion for improving staffing and care in long-term care today (and it’s economical by current political standards).
Are we really going to trust these guys again?
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 20, 2022
Trust is such a wonderful thing. It’s a compass that ultimately gets us where we’re going. Either we’re trying to create trustful bonds with friends and colleagues, or we’re busy trying to figure...
There will be no full COVID accounting if we ignore the numbers
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 18, 2022
When it comes to COVID accounting, the numbers won’t lie.
Working in long-term care can be hazardous to your health
By
John O'Connor
Jan 17, 2022
It’s well known that a career in the long-term care field may not be the healthiest way to scratch out a living. Especially when it involves interacting with, you know, the customers.
To the vaccine mandate winners and losers
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 13, 2022
It’s important the winners — and losers — from Thursday’s Supreme Court decision on the healthcare worker vaccine mandate keep something in mind.
No time like today to inspire tomorrow’s leaders
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 10, 2022
About this time last winter, I interviewed Lynn Hood about the challenges — and yes, victories! — of overseeing a chain of 40-plus skilled nursing facilities during the first year of COVID-19....
And the beat down goes on
By
John O'Connor
Jan 09, 2022
Barely a week into the New Year, many operators are already waist-deep in that old, familiar dread. If only the months ahead held the promise of relief. Not so, according to readers.
Rolling with the punches, long-term care style
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 06, 2022
It’s amazing how perspectives can change over time. Here we all think we know, and have known, what life with COVID has been like after all these months.