Here’s how you’ll know I’m sincere in my desire to celebrate some of long-term care’s most uncelebrated people. I’m willing to spend the next two hours trying to get the Word program to stop...
The power of the pants
By
Gary Tetz
Sep 21, 2017
Like any sensible facility marketing director does, I desperately want opportunities to attract attention. Recently, after considering every available option, I identified what I felt was a sure-fire way...
Small talk and FEMA camps
By
Gary Tetz
Feb 25, 2016
It’s getting harder and harder to talk to strangers on planes, now that advancing technology has rudely stripped a primary conversation starter away from all of us who are shy travelers.
One little word, one big perception
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 04, 2018
A friend of mine had grown concerned about the condition of her mother, who is a resident at a skilled nursing facility in another state. It tears at her heart being so far away, and she doesn’t get...
Lessons from Yolanda
By
Gary Tetz
Jul 02, 2015
Long-term care has far too many professionals with a depth and range of skill and training that the public almost never gets to see.
Biometric preening — dying is not good business
By
Gary Tetz
Nov 24, 2014
For success in long-term care, you want your employees to stay well, and especially not dead. If it isn’t already, that should probably be a primary component of your business plan. A dead staff...
Joe’s teeth
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 12, 2012
Paul Ryan’s big, sad eyes were mesmerizing, I’ll admit, but were nothing compared with Joe Biden’s teeth. They were gleaming, Clorox white. Whiter than the White Cliffs of Dover, my Canadian...
Almost done
By
Gary Tetz
Feb 04, 2021
“Almost done,” the doctor assured me, as she aimed her laser at my right eye. Then over the next 20 minutes, she said it several more times. By then I knew it was all a cruel deception, meant to distract...
Embracing the now
By
Gary Tetz
Nov 01, 2020
It’s one of the most ubiquitous laments of the pandemic, how time passes in a shapeless blur. “Sunrise, sunset. Swiftly flow the days,” goes the song from the musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” And...
Don’t forget to look up
By
Gary Tetz
Nov 05, 2015
For long-term care providers who usually only check the sky to see if it’s falling, the recent harvest supermoon lunar eclipse brought the chance for a fresh perspective.