Overflow crowd sees former American Senior Communities CEO get 9½ years for $19 million fraud, kickback...
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James M. Berklan
Jul 02, 2018
A U.S. District Court judge leaned closer to prosecuting attorneys’ recommendations than defense attorneys’ on Friday and sentenced former nursing home executive James Burkhart to 9½-years...
McKnight’s honored again for news coverage, writing
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May 02, 2016
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News earned top honors in the news coverage, profile writing and special supplement categories in this year’s American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors 2016...
Ask the payment expert
Feb 06, 2008
When should we start training our staff on the MDS 3.0?
The inevitable is here
By
Gary Tetz
Aug 09, 2018
Staffing is inadequate and erratic at many of the nation’s nursing homes?
Park in the Visitor spot
By
Gary Tetz
Jul 09, 2018
It sits, beckoning but unattainable, just outside the entrance to your long-term care facility — the Visitor parking spot. You can see it, but don’t dare use it. Every day, in big, block letters,...
Things I think: Surviving the treadmill
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Gary Tetz
Mar 08, 2018
Exercise can be hazardous to your health. Like antipsychotics, its pursuit should include a black box warning that atypical, or even typical, fitness attempts carry increased risk of injury and embarrassment....
The LTC Zen master
Jul 04, 2016
It was just meaningless workplace chatter, signifying nothing.
Things I Think: Lessons from the lobby
By
Gary Tetz
May 08, 2018
For a microcosm of life in perpetual motion, its pleasures and challenges, and every accompanying human emotion, it’s not necessary to loiter at the airport. Just sit quietly in the lobby of any...
The former chief operating officer of American Senior Communities was sentenced to 4½ years in prison last week as part of a fraud scheme that also took down the company’s CEO.