I’ve learned after many years of covering long-term care that certain things are sure to arouse providers’ anger — over regulation, under payment and reckless media accounts among them. What...
It’s time to lean on compliance officers
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 13, 2016
If administrators and long-term care managers were ever looking for a good time to make their mark, this is it. And they better be looking to, or start creating, high-quality compliance officers as well.
Pay cuts could wipe out labs, hurt nursing homes
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 05, 2014
When it comes to worries about how Medicare doctors will be paid, nursing home operators have thought they should stand at the front of a long and anxious line. Truth be told, they have some stiff competition...
Like Trump, arbitration clauses up off the deck
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 10, 2016
Politics makes strange bedfellows. Another great illustration of this could be the many nursing home operators waking up to their previously unrealized love affair with President-elect Trump. That’s...
Time for a palliative care makeover
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 21, 2016
Celebrity party animals have done it. Nursing homes have done it. Now, it’s time for palliative care providers to do it.
The politics of why long-term care leaders are smiling
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 30, 2016
Sometimes when things go wrong, they’re right. Oh, so right. That’s the position long-term care professionals now find themselves in — or at least hope they do.
Guinness was calling and these LTC record breakers answered
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 18, 2015
A little-known fact in Berklan family lore is that I was once part of a Guinness World Records Book entry. There are press clippings somewhere at the house, but I don’t know exactly where.
Ice buckets, fund-raising and long-term care
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 28, 2014
Whoever dreamed up the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge should be given a medal — and immediately hired to speak at the next long-term care association conference. Such creativity and that kind of Midas touch...
Nursing homes should get ready for another image battering
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 26, 2014
Long-term care providers are sitting anxiously on the sidelines as members of Congress tussle with what to do before the end of the month about certain healthcare payment formulas. What will actually be...