In addition to tracking and submitting extensive COVID-19 data to NHSN weekly and providing numerous data requests to surveyors, facilities now have to dedicate resources to populating a COVID-19 Staff...
By any reasonable standard, nursing homes just endured a pretty rough week.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, through its consumer‐facing website, has made additional nursing home staffing data available. Doing so during a public health emergency, when the industry...
Long-term care operators should actually welcome many of the reforms proposed by the administration this week.
We all know it to be true. Common sense, really. When we as therapists coordinate our care more efficiently across teams and settings our patients excel. They feel supported. And in many cases, they...
Today, there are more open positions than applicants, which means we have to make those first several days better for new hires. Chances are they still have a few more options waiting if the first week...
As we kick off March Madness, I got to thinking about competition in leadership. Competition is one of my personal top five strengths, and I know it’s a motivator for me in many ways.
President Biden’s plan targets what he feels is the top healthcare sector threat to consumers.
In this McKnight’s Newsmakers podcast, McKnight’s Long-Term Care News Executive Editor Jim Berklan, McKnight’s Editorial Director John O’Connor and New Hampshire Health Care Association...
There are pretty decent odds many elements of the White House vision for nursing homes won’t see the light of day.
