Multiple uses of pressure support surfaces: Not just for pressure injuries
By
Karen Lerner
Feb 08, 2019
In addition to treating and preventing pressure injuries, support surfaces can play a large role in helping to reduce pain and enhance sleep. Chronic pain is the most common cause of long-term disability,...
A long-term care hero
By
Lori Porter
Mar 03, 2014
Early in my career, I met a long-term care role model who changed my attitude. I’ve held up her service as the best example of how one person can influence an entire nursing home.
Tough economic environment? Yes. But not all is lost for CCRCs in 2009
By
Michael Sandnes
Feb 02, 2009
It’s not an ideal operating climate for continuing care retirement communities. For those entities hurting financially, an effective management consultant advisory firm can help put the companies...
This American Life … and death: Superb shows about hospice
By
Tim Mullaney
Apr 29, 2014
A few months after Pattie Burnham started working as a hospice nurse, she forgot the name of the president of the United States. That’s normal, her boss told her.
No argument: This Butler did it (and more)
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 02, 2015
Professionals are often told it’s in their best interest to network. Friend of long-term care Kerrick Butler has brought new meaning to the concept.
Elders find purpose through service and community commitment
By
Jennifer Cabe and Joan Devine
Apr 20, 2018
Unfortunately, residents of care communities are rarely tapped to provide much-needed service. Perhaps we are too busy seeing the things that residents CANNOT do, and fail to see all that they CAN do!
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”...
What do we do when the antipsychotics are gone?
By
Richard Juman, Psy.D
Aug 23, 2016
In an era of outcome-based care, it is imperative that facilities successfully integrate evidence-based behavioral health services.
Second responders: Answering the call for help in long-term care
By
Debbie Pool
Wendy Boren
Aug 26, 2020
It was late afternoon on Jan. 30, 2020. A nurse from the Quality Improvement Program for Missouri (QIPMO) was leading a standard table top influenza pandemic exercise in Poplar Bluff when a call came through...
How does the MLTC Medicaid model impact seniors?
By
Ben Mandelbaum
May 02, 2016
Managed Long Term Care plans are private insurance companies that are paid a monthly premium by the Medicaid program to provide nursing home, assisted living and home care coverage to people who need long-term...