Clinical competencies crucial to managed care success, experts say
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Apr 20, 2016
Clinical competencies crucial to managed care success, experts say
Finance Feature: Re-raising the roof
By
John Andrews
Feb 08, 2006
Facilities are aging along with their residents, prompting operators to fund remodeling aimed at restoring their youth.
State News for May 2015
May 08, 2015
ILLINOIS — The state’s House of Representatives will soon debate a new bill that would allow nursing home residents and their families to place video or audio monitoring devices in facility rooms.
Providers already have the answers to their staffing problems — if they know where to look
Jul 12, 2022
Long-term care providers can win the recruiting battle for workers by using current staff members’ own observations to better build their “employee brand,” advises a top consultant, former administrator...
Nurses union to FDA: Mask decontamination never should have been OK’d
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 29, 2021
The reuse of N95 respirators and other single-use PPE is unsafe, according to the lead hygienist of National Nurses United. The union is heartened by President Joe Biden’s promise to use the Defense...
Pressure ulcers require seamless treatment plan throughout care continuum
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Dr. James G. Spahn
Apr 21, 2009
Caregivers should adhere to an individualized care plan for patients with pressure ulcers as they move through the continuum of care.
It’s time to get away
By
Julie Thorson
Mar 30, 2017
We were not meant to work without time to reflect and have a break.
ZPICs: Dangerous and ready to take down providers
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 24, 2012
Healthcare reform: No matter how much you may loathe it, there’s no way around how certain ideas, like pay for performance, aren’t going away.
CenterLight names first CIO
Mar 13, 2013
CenterLight Health System has hired William C. Pelzar as the organization’s first chief information officer.
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News Newsmakers Podcast with Julie Thorson: Leadership: What’s...
Oct 31, 2021
Many long-term care leaders are failing to lead effectively because they consistently lack the one characteristic that must always be present. That’s according to leadership expert Julie...