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The McKnight’s decade: ‘Best News’ honors for 10th straight year
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 02, 2019
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News was honored Monday for having the Best News Coverage for the 10th straight year. MLTCN earned five awards overall in the 2019 American Society of Healthcare Publication...
What to do when #MeToo reaches your facility
By
Teri Sumbry
Apr 01, 2019
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, so this is a good time to raise awareness and educate the public about the prevention of sexual violence in our industry.
Hospitals gobbling up nursing homes? Maybe it will be different this time.
By
John O'Connor
Apr 01, 2019
My Uncle Mike never threw out his old neck ties.
Awards program, tickets set to fete LTC’s Women of Distinction
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 29, 2019
Tickets are now on sale for the first McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program, which will be held May 16 in Chicago.
Call women what they want to be called
By
Elizabeth Newman
Mar 29, 2019
In an industry working hard to address the challenges facing senior living leaders who are women, calling someone by their preferred name reflects a basic level of respect.
Boosting infection control with new diagnostics
By
Evan Jones
Mar 27, 2019
The benefits of proper infection control are well-known in the long-term care community. Reducing transmission and limiting the number of patients afflicted by a particular strain are primary goals.
Genesis nursing home helps immortalize resident as an author
By
Marty Stempniak
Mar 27, 2019
Employees at one Delaware nursing home went well out of their way to help capture the life of an “extraordinary resident” who says she is technically 25 years old.
Why Five-Star ratings should measure staff retention, not staff ratios
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Mar 26, 2019
If we shift to a system that measures staff retention rather than staff ratios, the whole picture changes.
Struggling to understand this latest ‘viral’ nursing home story
By
Marty Stempniak
Mar 26, 2019
As a journalist, one should probably have a fairly firm grasp of what news items might catch fire and “go viral” across the interwebs. But as it turns out, this writer could, admittedly, using a little...