Chris Chirumbolo, CEO, Carespring Health Care Management
As COVID-19 vaccine boosters are mulled, long-term care advocates, critics both want facilities to prepare
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 28, 2021
Since before the first shots went into arms, health experts and federal officials have pondered the need for boosters. Much of the initial chatter focused on a six-month window before protection waned,...
AMFM’s telehealth initiative earns McKnight’s Tech Awards Gold Award
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 29, 2020
A small chain of nursing homes operating throughout West Virginia, AMFM, previously had considered incorporating virtual medicine into its operations but found the options unsatisfactory.
Ease ‘churning and burning’ of staff with these strategies, experts tell LTC crowd
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 11, 2022
Medical directors and other advanced clinical staff can do more to help direct care workers cope with the ongoing staffing shortage, a strategy that experts at the PALTC2022 annual conference said Thursday...
BREAKING: CMS sets new vaccination targets for another 24 states
By
James M. Berklan
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 14, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Friday that providers in 24 states added to the federal vaccine mandate roster Thursday have until March 15 to become fully vaccinated.
McKnight’s 2022 Outlook Survey: Providers pessimistic about staffing, census, new regs
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 01, 2022
More than three-fourths (78%) of nursing home operators and top managers don’t expect the workforce to return to pre-pandemic levels for at least another year — if ever.
BREAKING: Ownership changes go public in fresh CMS move
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 20, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services early Wednesday announced it had posted data on nursing home ownership changes to its website in an effort to increase transparency.
The new LTC superheroes: non-retirees
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 16, 2022
My middle child, not yet old enough for middle school, recently asked me when I planned to retire. Me of no gray hair, of the too-small 401K, of exciting career accomplishments yet to be achieved! For...
McKnight’s 2022 Outlook Survey: Providers pessimistic about staffing, census, new regs
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 01, 2022
More than three-fourths (78%) of nursing home operators and top managers don’t expect the workforce to return to pre-pandemic levels for at least another year — if ever.
Profile: Naushira Pandya, M.D.
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 05, 2015
After spending her childhood in Uganda and completing her early medical training in England, Naushira Pandya, M.D., was shocked by what she first witnessed as an American doctor.