ReaderPoll: What do you think should happen to the Manganos?
Apr 11, 2007
“What do you think should happen to the Manganos, the facility owners charged with 35 counts of negligent homicide after Hurricane Katrina?”
Opinion: Having My Say — How your future might look
Mar 09, 2007
I’d like to share with you a story of our future. AAHSA recently completed our second scenario-planning exercise. It is designed to help us see what the next 10 years might hold for our field. The...
TV reporter fired for nursing home stunt
By
Haymarket Media
Mar 09, 2007
An Australian television reporter who gave a nursing home resident chains to wear during a broadcast protesting her pending eviction has been fired.
Hospice trend allows for more medical care, report finds
By
Haymarket Media
Feb 13, 2007
Some hospice programs and private health insurers are taking a new approach that may encourage more patients to receive hospice care for the last months of life, according to a report in the New York Times.
Stark wants major change to healthcare plan
By
Liza Berger
Jan 09, 2007
Sweeping changes to the House’s healthcare agenda could be in store if the new House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee chairman has his way.
How to do it… Resident security
By
Haymarket Media
Jan 09, 2007
Long-term care providers need to know at least a little bit about a lot of things. When the human element is involved, that’s when things start to get especially tricky. If those humans are wander-...
Investigation continues into ‘suspicious’ fire that killed 10 at group home
By
Haymarket Media
Nov 29, 2006
Authorities continued to sift clues Tuesday after a fire broke out Monday at a group home in Missouri Ozarks, killing nine residents and one staff member. Eighteen other people were hospitalized, some...
Opinion — THE BIGPICTURE: They throw the book at LTC
Nov 08, 2006
Short of an autopsy, we don’t yet have a foolproof diagnostic tool for Alzheimer’s disease. Our clues are usually the symptoms that residents reveal. But symptoms are just that, symptoms. And...
Profile — Turnaround specialist
By
John Andrews
Oct 16, 2006
Doug Pace, executive director, National Commission for Quality LTC, has a very important deadline, and if he doesn’t make it, he will lose his job.
Finance Feature — Old quandary
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 16, 2006
More and more, aging facilities are begging the question:
Is it time to remodel, refurbish or just start over?