Susan Ryan named to new top position at Center for Innovation
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 28, 2022
The Center for Innovation, or CFI, the parent organization of the Green House Project and Pioneer Network, is reorganizing its leadership as it focuses on growth.
Talevski ruling could send nursing home liability rates soaring
By
Randy Fearnow
Jaya White
Nov 16, 2022
If the Supreme Court leaves Talevski in tact, experts predict liability insurance will become significantly more expensive for publicly owned facilities in Indiana.
Operational, fiscal and clinical alert: Time to brush up MDS procedures for big changes at hand
Nov 14, 2022
It’s time for providers to start shoring up processes to successfully implement big changes to the Minimum Data Set assessment form that will soon be in play. Failure to get ready — starting this month,...
Hebrew Home stands tall with ‘Innovator of Year’ Gold Award
By
Foster Stubbs
Nov 10, 2022
A simple task like walking without falling makes a huge difference once a person gets to a certain age. That’s why when the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, of Bronx, NY, made zero falls in parts of their community...
Fatal contraction or flexible adaptation: Can we ‘flex’ the LTC sector?
By
Irving Stackpole
Oct 24, 2022
The contraction of both supply and demand of long-term care in the United States is becoming acute, especially given the flexibility needed for what lies ahead. The sector was in very serious shape...
Breaking news that hopefully won’t break us
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Oct 20, 2022
By now, we’ve all heard how the CDC has lowered requirements for infection control in the new world of endemic COVID-19. But here’s an abridged list anyway: Vaccination status is no longer used to...
It’s about time: New rules proposed to address healthcare discrimination
By
Neville M. Bilimoria
Oct 18, 2022
This summer, the US Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin,...
CMS should bring its oversight hammer down . . . on states
By
Brendan Williams
Oct 17, 2022
CMS has an absolute hammer when it comes to accepting, or rejecting, state Medicaid rates that it finds fail to substantially comply with federal law,
Adjusting the debate, but probably not the outcome
By
John O'Connor
Oct 15, 2022
For decades, providers and consumer advocates have been going at it hammer and tongs. At stake in this epic PR battle is nothing less than which perception of long-term care is best believed.
It’s time for well-earned salutes to those leaders we respect
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 06, 2022
Call them prized veterans, mentors, stars, uber-leaders. Label them whatever you want. We all have them around us in our work lives. Now it’s time to celebrate them properl