Seven months after Katrina, shattered infrastructure leaves operators crippled.Talk to various nursing home people in and around New Orleans and not one expresses optimism. There is hope. And there is...
Skilled nursing’s 2023 McKnight’s Tech Awards finalists announced
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 21, 2023
Finalists for the 2023 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards were announced today by program organizers.
Implications for therapy, tech emerge as praise continues for 2.5% CMS pay raise
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 23, 2019
Long-term care stakeholders continued to bask in the government’s announced $879 million market basket update for nursing homes in fiscal 2020 on Monday.
Skilled nursing finalists unveiled for 2022 McKnight’s Tech Awards
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 19, 2022
The fields of finalists for the 2022 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards were released Monday morning by event organizers. A variety of providers, ranging from small operators to large chains,...
Top brass, colleges announce ‘transformative’ summit for LTC administrators
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James M. Berklan
Dec 11, 2018
Long-term care providers, associations, and colleges will make history when a variety of their top leaders meet for the first time at a newly created academic summit in June.
Kindred Healthcare has succeeded in its quest to acquire Gentiva Health Services. The companies announced Thursday morning they would combine to create the fourth-biggest healthcare provider of any type...
Risk Management Feature: Overexposed?
By
James M. Berklan
May 12, 2006
Recent risk management developments have raised the ante for providers. Answers may lie in mastering basic practices
Wound Care Feature: Pressure point
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 11, 2006
The ‘shock and awe’ of stark, new guidelines on wound care have not yet hit, but providers can expect some changes.
Lawmakers go to bat for providers over backlogged Medicare appeals
By
James M. Berklan
May 22, 2014
Angry lawmakers ripped an overwhelmed Medicare appeals process that has wilted under a tenfold increase in audits recently. Federal officials from two key agencies agreed that the Medicare’s Recovery...
Infection control feature: Taking control
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 09, 2005
Nursing homes face a multitude of infection control challenges, and the job isn’t going to get less complicated any time soon.