The post-acute area is viewed by most as the leading opportunity to find cost savings and efficiencies.
Integrating technology into art therapy programs
By
Caroline Edasis
Sep 30, 2016
Our art therapists will continue to identify new ways to integrate technology into our existing creative practices so that in-the-moment meaning can be preserved, revisited and shared.
Troubled observations of a veteran long-term care nurse
By
Cynthia Skinner
Jun 12, 2019
Our problems in long-term care are too complex for simple answers, which is too bad. Nurses especially deserve better.
2015: The year of innovation
By
Jon Kole
Dec 19, 2014
As we prepare to say goodbye to 2014 and hello to 2015, now is the time to make a New Year’s resolution of innovation. While each long-term care facility will chart its own course, the Hebrew Home...
3 ways to evolve your staffing model
By
Mike King
Jan 07, 2019
As we’ve adopted the Green House Project® model of care, we’ve noticed staff and residents have truly become like family.
Can Medicare Advantage be redeemed?
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Feb 06, 2024
I just got back from vacation and didn’t have to think about this for a whole week. But there’s no place like home. For a whole week, I didn’t have to worry about chores, obligations, or how Medicare...
#Unboxme in 2018
By
Tara Roberts
Jan 03, 2018
I know you think you have unwrapped all of the presents under your company’s Christmas tree-but wait. I know of a present that you haven’t “unboxed” yet and it’s the gift...
Communication and collaboration yields a reduction in behaviors
By
Janean Kinzie
Oct 25, 2021
Reducing antipsychotic medication use in long-term care residents has been a focus for both nursing home operators and practitioners for nearly 10 years since the launch of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid...
Walking on sunshine
By
Gary Tetz
Jul 28, 2022
A cheery good morning from Portland, OR — or as I affectionately call it, the surface of the sun. It’s a million degrees outside, day and night. The heat is constant and oppressive, and none...
Creating a culture of teamwork to prevent hospital transfers
By
Arif Nazir, MD, CMD
Jul 24, 2023
As a physician leader in post-acute and long term care settings, most of what I do aims to empower, coach and motivate teams to prevent unwanted hospital transfers. I confess that initially, many years...