Let there be no more questions about whether creating long-term care facilities to reflect different eras is a good idea.
Transform your recruiting with the Waddling Goose Technique™
By
Gary Tetz
Jan 25, 2018
At the risk of shameless self-promotion, I’m quite sure I’ve just solved one of the great challenges facing long-term care providers — hiring the right frontline caregivers.
We never shut down
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jan 24, 2018
As the government shut down over the weekend, it struck me once again: We in long-term care do not close our doors. Ever.
The true cost of obesity to SNFs
By
Joy Stephenson-Laws
Jan 19, 2018
While federal regulations state that nursing homes must provide “each resident with a nourishing, palatable, and well-balanced diet that meets dietary requirements and any special dietary needs”...
Treat yourself to a person-directed 2018
By
Renee Kinder
Jan 18, 2018
In case it hasn’t registered yet, the cultural shift from provider-directed care to person-directed care has carried over effectively into the updated state survey processes being implemented secondary...
Presenting to win
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jan 17, 2018
In a profile about House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), one detail about how he treated President Trump was seized upon by a variety of media outlets, for good reason.
Preventing Legionnaires’ disease in LTC
By
Amanda Thornton, RN, MSN
Jan 12, 2018
It is not often that we think of Legionnaires’ disease, the form of pneumonia brought on by inhaling aerosolized water containing L pneumophila bacteria. But when the illness rears its ugly head,...
You already know the LTC story to watch this year (and so do they)
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 12, 2018
Look into the crystal balls out there to speculate about the rest of 2018. But remember, too, that examining the past is also a very good way to know the road ahead.
Gravity wins — again
By
Gary Tetz
Jan 11, 2018
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that everything happens for a reason. In my case, life’s challenges are apparently meted out by the gods for the sole purpose of entertaining...
Three things that won’t happen in long-term care during 2018
By
John O'Connor
Jan 08, 2018
Last week I offered three fearless predictions for the year ahead in long-term care. So without further ado, here are three predictions every long-term care operator can count on. As in, count on NOT to...