Never forget that every resident has a past, a story worth hearing if they could only tell it.
Your future ratings rest in residents’ hands
By
Jan 31, 2017
Any news story that heralds a something as the “next frontier” in healthcare is probably worth clicking on, right?
Social media: A risk analysis
By
Betty Norman
Dec 23, 2015
In lieu of disturbing stories about applications such as Snapchat, it’s a good time to review best practices.
Virtue amid this long-term care drama worthy of the big screen
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 26, 2018
Since the dramatic FBI raids became known three years ago, there have been few long-term care stories more compelling than the “looting” of American Seniors Communities by some of its former...
As a boss, are you providing good guidance, or ‘good’ stories?
By
John O'Connor
Nov 22, 2013
Say what you will about bad bosses: They always seem to create great stories. But not usually as intended.
LTC’s ‘story of the year’ awaiting next chapter
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 22, 2018
Providers and other stakeholders must feel like school children sitting in the principal’s outer office, anxiously — if not eagerly — awaiting their fate.
Personal stories every therapist should know
By
Shelly Mesure, MS, OTR/L
Dec 17, 2013
What’s the point of all of our treatment interventions and plans of care if we can’t relate to our patients? If you can put a face and personality behind your justification for therapy services,...
McKnight’s.com wants you to contribute Web stories
By
Liza Berger
Apr 30, 2009
Scroll down mcknights.com and you’ll see a new section. “Shared Links” is located under “Latest Jobs” in the middle column of the home page. There is also a blue link to it at the top of the...
Horrors of Holocaust still vivid for some elderly Jews
By
Liza Berger
Nov 07, 2008
This Sunday, Jews around the world will commemorate Kristallnacht, also called “Night of Broken Glass,” one of the most brutal single events of the Holocaust. Seventy years ago on Nov. 9, 1938, violence...
Alarming headline about safety gives incomplete picture
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 16, 2015
Curse the headline writers, for they sometimes don’t do stories justice. The nursing home profession knows this as well as anyone.