Taking a step back and listening to their words gave us a different perspective. They don’t want to be cared for. They want to live and want others to help them to live the fullest, most meaningful...
Achieving person-centric care in LTC
By
Frank Spinelli
May 28, 2013
How can long-term care providers make real improvements in the care delivered to those in need? It’s important for providers to put participants and their families front and center, rather than focusing...
Will there be a ‘real’ CMS administrator soon? It’s looking so
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 03, 2013
If you’re a gambling person, it looks like the odds just got a whole lot better for Marilyn Tavenner becoming the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. That’s...
Technology in the nursing home
By
Michael Defrancesco
Feb 13, 2013
Not too long ago, the mortar and pestle were the mechanism of choice to crush pills. Today, the average facility has to crush pills for around 30% of its residents. Now there is an easier way to crush...
Design Decisions: It’s ‘a culture of caring’
By
Mary Gustafson
Jan 03, 2011
Nursing home incorporates elements of Asian culture into the design of its remodeling efforts to make it feel more like home
Major chains breaking with AHCA
By
Haymarket Media
Aug 25, 2005
Leaders of the nation’s largest nursing home association say they are planning “dramatic” organizational changes in response to the possible withdrawal of 15 national chains. The chains,...
CMS ‘heartless’ for its big nursing home pay cut proposal
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 12, 2022
Providers are struggling with the federal government’s “heartless” decision to decrease pay for SNFs by $320 million in fiscal 2023.
Little innovation in the long-term care sector? Really?
By
John O'Connor
Nov 02, 2012
Conventional wisdom holds that the long-term care sector is short on innovation. But there’s one little problem with this view. It happens to be dead wrong.
Painting by numbers: the way to go to make the right business decisions
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 24, 2014
The reasons to pursue more robust data-crunching activities keep growing. Especially for long-term care providers, who could have a leg up on other providers and payers.
Looks like insurance isn’t the only thing being exchanged here
By
John O'Connor
Sep 23, 2013
I have a friend who might be best described as a curmudgeon-in-training. He seems to live in a world where almost everything was better than it is now.