After the train
There’s a hopeful phrase we started hearing a lot from long-term care leaders, residents and staff when the vaccines first arrived—“a light at the end of the tunnel.” Invariably some wise-guy or...
Employee exits don’t necessarily mean a permanent goodbye
I was a boomerang employee. Boomerang employees are people who leave an organization for personal or professional reasons and then come back to their former company as a re-hire. Just to be clear,...
Is it fair to give nursing homes the Martin Shkreli treatment?
Nursing homes found themselves lumped in with Pharma Bro-turned-felon Martin Shkreli in this year’s Top 10 ranking of “the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare.”
Potential False Claims Act liability for nursing homes
The FCA is the Department of Justice’s key tool in combating healthcare fraud and abuse The False Claims Act (FCA) provides a remedy of civil damages when a party 1) makes a false statement or engages...
Once upon a time, before profit ruled the land, there were missions
In the old days, Young Readers, before the goal of eldercare was merely profit, nursing homes used to have things called “missions.” Missions focused on the well-being of the elders they cared for...
Operate like a staffing agency to optimize your workforce
If we learned anything during the pandemic, it’s that minutes matter. COVID quickly exposed the importance of knowing when and where to find and deploy staff resources – and the need to do so fast....
Nothing great about these resignations
Thanks largely to a COVID-19 vaccine, more people are returning to their places of employment. But maybe not for long.
A caregiver named Sammy
It is not an unusual story. A 90-year-old man suddenly is having trouble breathing, his heart is enlarged, and his kidneys are slowing down in their functioning. A care conference is called and the family,...
3 risks many long-term care providers don’t realize they’re exposed to
COVID-19 has shown just how precarious the situation in some long-term care facilities can be. During the first few months of the pandemic, many LTC providers were stuck trying to interpret mercurial public...
Not even a pandemic can keep these long-term care providers down
I’m choosing right now to bask in the great satisfaction that while pandemic conditions were devastating in so many ways, there was also a steady beat of quality care and innovation pulsing throughout.
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