If you want to know what skilled care will look like in five years, consider what hospitals look like today.
The wrenching decision of receivership
Sep 07, 2018
Inadequate Medicaid reimbursement led the Matney family to make a wrenching decision at the end of July: To ask the state to take over the nursing home that had been in their family for 40-plus years.
For long-term care operators, every day is Labor Day
By
John O'Connor
Sep 04, 2018
Hope you had a nice Labor Day. For most of the country, it comes around once a year. But if you are leading a long-term care organization, it’s pretty much an everyday event.
McCain’s passing reminds providers of special role with veterans
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 30, 2018
Among the many professionals seeking to make good out of former Sen. John McCain’s final days are hospice and end-of-life caregivers. They point out that long-term care operators have plenty to learn...
Foreign workers to the rescue?
Aug 27, 2018
The idea could hardly be better. Timing could hardly be worse.
Luxury standards that pay off
By
Elizabeth Newman
Aug 24, 2018
When service fails, the resident or customer often has their vision of a place permanently altered.
Now nursing homes have to put up with this?
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 22, 2018
Grandma used to say beware the man who doesn’t stop talking: He often has nothing to say.
About those can’t-miss strategies we’ll soon be hearing about …
By
John O'Connor
Aug 20, 2018
The fall convention season is fast approaching. That means many of us will soon find ourselves jammed into educational sessions, taking in must-do advice from the smarty-pants crowd.
When a nurse seems too good to be true
By
Elizabeth Newman
Aug 17, 2018
One would think the most interesting part of a book where the main character kills hundreds of people would be the murders. But you’d be wrong: It’s the cover-up. This is one true story you’ll...
Your greatest staff-training tool could be a threat
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 15, 2018
I’ve wanted to write a follow-up blog ever since a late June news story in the Daily Update. In my opinion, there has been no better example of a useful article for long-term care providers anywhere,...