I encourage providers to pause and pat themselves on the back. That’s because 30-day hospital readmission rates have dropped in all states except one over the past five years.
The power of the press and nursing homes
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 20, 2018
Do you do plenty of good work in your long-term care setting? Of course you do. Do you feel like the public knows this well enough? Of course you don’t.
Game changer for long-term care? More like a game ender
By
John O'Connor
Aug 17, 2020
New survey numbers from the American Health Care Association paint an industry portrait that is anything but flattering. Shocking might be more like it.
Essential long-term care leadership on display
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 27, 2022
A top long-term care executive candidly displayed the most important traits of great leadership Thursday, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.
Accountable care brings a bundle of pay concerns
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 20, 2011
If there were any doubt, you can erase it now: If you’re a long-term care provider, you MUST make sure you are ingrained in whatever form accountable care organizations take near you in the future....
A date with C-SPAN
By
Liza Berger
Nov 20, 2009
I guess I know what I’ll be doing Saturday night—pretty much what I did two Saturday nights ago. Channel surfing. I’ll be watching to see if Congress acts on its healthcare reform legislation.
Commencement speech season heats up
By
Mary Gustafson
May 24, 2012
Since I am sucker for celebrity commencement addresses, mid- to late-May is like my own, personal Christmas.
Nurses still can’t get no respect in the news
By
Marty Stempniak
Oct 18, 2018
Could it be that things have gotten worse for nurses mentioned in the news? Apparently so.
A good book’s unintended lesson and tears for a great friend
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 27, 2015
One of the best signs of a good book is its unplanned lessons. While its title might profess how to fix this or do better at that, a high-quality book also will lead the reader to enlightenment for reasons...
How one provider went out of its way to help those affected by the government shutdown
By
Marty Stempniak
Jan 29, 2019
Seeing others hurt so badly by the just-ended (or at least temporarily on hold), government shutdown, it might be easy for some to say “not my problem.” But one busy, Illinois-based provider refused...