It’s time to prep comments to CMS on its proposed nursing home staffing mandate
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 01, 2023
Operators can now get started on submitting comments critiquing the administrations proposed nursing home minimum staffing mandate.
Skilled nursing’s best-read columns and blogs of 2023
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 20, 2023
The rich mix of insights offered at mcknights.com is always a highlight of the year, and 2023 was certainly no exception.
LeadingAge 2023 annual conference could be biggest yet
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 11, 2023
Organizers are gearing up for what they figure could be the group’s biggest annual conference yet, Nov. 5-8 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
McKnight’s honored for best healthcare news for fifth straight year
By
James M. Berklan
May 01, 2014
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News is being honored for having the best news coverage among healthcare publications for a record fifth straight year. In all, the McKnight’s editorial team earned...
McKnight’s Marselas wins national ASBPE Gold Award
By
James M. Berklan
May 15, 2023
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News Senior Editor Kim Marselas was named the nation’s best in the Original Research reporting category in the 2023 American Society of Business Publications Editors awards.
LeadingAge conference brings new E2 Experience Expo Nov. 5-8
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 06, 2023
LeadingAge’s annual conference and expo lands in Chicago Nov. 5-8 and will feature a handful of new wrinkles.
McKnight’s 40 for 40: Mary Ousley
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 13, 2020
To paraphrase an old television commercial, when Mary Ousley talks, people listen.
BREAKING: CMS announces shift to broadly expand telehealth Medicare coverage to nursing home beneficiaries,...
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 17, 2020
The federal government is stripping away barriers to Medicare telehealth coverage as a frontline response to the coronavirus outbreak, which feeds on person-to-person contact and has proven deadliest for...
The reaction to ACOs? Please pass the aspirin
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 01, 2011
I haven’t heard them pronounced this way yet, but long-term care providers might want to consider it when it comes to ACOs. Instead of spelling it out, as in A-C-O, say it phonetically, as in “Ache-O.”
Women of Distinction Awards nominations now open
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 18, 2022
The 5th annual McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program kicked off this week with a limited window for nominating outstanding leaders in three experience categories.