Long-term care operators, Chicago may be gunning for you
Chicago’s emerging description might give nursing home operators a legitimate reason for concern: union-movement incubator.
The finality of saying yes
“I do not know that you understand what it feels like to say, ‘no’ to treatments, aggressive interventions or medications and ‘yes’ to the finality of death. It isn’t until you have to speak...
The solution to your staffing problems? Listen, learn, change
With more than 40 years in healthcare as a provider, and more significantly as a strategic market analyst, Irving Stackpole knows a thing or 300 about your business and the struggles you face.
Trail banter, long-term care style
For lots of good reasons, a long-term care facility hallway should not be the same as a hiking trail. Protruding rocks and exposed tree roots would create a fall hazard, and make med cart navigation...
Support staff in a different way to reduce turnover
Front-line workers want physical, mental and emotional SUPPORT from their leaders. They’re not getting it right now, and they need it every single day!
The summer of our nursing homes’ discontent
Memorial Day weekend usually ushers in a feeling of lightness, but I’m weighed down by uncertainty this year. Will it be a summer of discontent?
Practical guidance for providers to empower TNAs to become CNAs
On April 7, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that the waiver option that created clinical caregiving roles known as Temporary Nurse Aides (TNAs) and Personal Care Aides (PCAs)...
Correcting the misperception of palliative care
Palliative care is an often-misunderstood term, even for patients and providers who believe they understand what it is.
McKnight’s Women of Distinction 2022
Take a look at the video from the May 12, 2022, McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards ceremony, at which dozens of women in skilled nursing, senior living and home care were honored across four...
Mom-and-pop survival
The chain and franchise SNFs will mostly survive. But in the face of rising costs, federal cuts and vast numbers of employees leaving the workforce, how can the small operators survive?
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