If a recent survey of about 800 corporate attorneys is to be believed, there’s no shortage of things to lose sleep over.
Time to take the plunge?
By
John O'Connor
Jun 01, 2014
I’ll never forget my first encounter with the high diving board at Sherman Park pool.
Cameras in nursing homes? Better get used to them
By
John O'Connor
Apr 26, 2013
Street cameras played a major role in identifying the two brothers who allegedly bombed the Boston Marathon. In the wake of this helpful development, public support is growing for expanded use of cameras...
Yes, the immigration bill has a partisan flavor. Here’s why you should still support it.
By
John O'Connor
Feb 22, 2021
As a child of immigrants who had to jump through a remarkable series of hoops to enter this country and become naturalized citizens, I view a new immigration bill in a special light.
This ain’t no tunnel of love
By
John O'Connor
Mar 11, 2024
It seems there has always been some kind of fiscal cat-and-mouse game playing out between nursing homes and those who pay the bills.
Of arbitration victories and payback
By
John O'Connor
Jun 12, 2017
In a year already chock full of regulatory victories, last week’s development about arbitration clauses might turn out to be the best of the bunch. But …
A workweek tweak that’s worth the fight
By
John O'Connor
Jan 09, 2015
The new Congress hadn’t even officially started and already a major fight over stipulations for a new work-week threshold was heating up. Obamacare doesn’t have the answer this time.
Let’s not shop ’til we drop
By
John O'Connor
Dec 01, 2008
Our elected officials appear to have embraced the notion that you have to spend money to make money. Or at least that you have to spend money.
New president soon? Big deal
By
John O'Connor
Oct 01, 2008
With less than a month before Election Day, the fight to determine our next president has hit a fever pitch. By that, I mean both sides are working as never before to smear the other guy.
It’s easy to forget how quickly things have improved for LTC
By
John O'Connor
Apr 01, 2013
This publication and this sector were facing some very troubled times in 1990. That’s when I joined McKnight’s Long-Term Care News. The experts have a technical term for where the field and...