Over time there have been numerous books, projects, articles and discussions on the art of leadership. The term “art of leadership” could be defined as the application of the skills of leadership.
Moving the needle in nursing home vaccination rates
By
Michael Wasserman
Leslie Eber
Feb 14, 2024
On February 29, 2020, the first Coronavirus nursing home outbreak was reported by the media. Experts in geriatric and long-term care medicine immediately understood the dangers to nursing home residents....
Let’s ban busy
By
Julie Thorson
Nov 09, 2022
As I was preparing mentally for my day, I was beating myself up because I waited to prepare this blog until the last minute. I justified it by telling myself, “Well, I have been busy.” If I could...
5 strategies for leveraging LTC data
By
Amy Ostrem
Jan 11, 2021
In skilled nursing facilities, there is a high demand for data that can be leveraged to improve clinical and financial outcomes. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the idea that caregivers’ time is...
Understanding chiropractic care in LTC
By
Lisa Z. Killinger, D.C.
Jun 09, 2017
LTC health professionals know all too well that musculoskeletal pain is a common patient complaint.
What’s your 2023 leadership training plan?
By
Cara Silletto
Nov 07, 2022
As we begin to plan for the 2023 calendar year, I’m talking with more executives about their vision for professional development.
Ice cream and other ways to keep residents healthy post-pandemic
By
Steven Buslovich, M.D.
Mar 29, 2021
As nursing home residents and staff get vaccinated, it’s clear we still won’t be returning to crowded dining halls and ice cream parties anytime soon. But milkshakes, sundaes, bananas, soft pretzels...
Combat Frontline on the front lines
By
Anthony Cirillo
Sep 30, 2013
Experiences become stories, which really are perceptions of the actual experience translated. Stories spread by word of mouth, amplified by social media. Stories make people fall in love, or hate, with...
Long-term care tries on the emperor’s new suit of clothes
By
James M. Berklan
May 01, 2020
The flurry of nursing-home related activity in the nation’s capital Thursday was breathtaking by any measure.
Rise above the regulations and the system
By
Martie Moore
Feb 18, 2020
My mother spent her last night as a boarder in an Emergency Department somewhere in America.