Inclement weather is here, and so is increased elopement danger
By
Elizabeth Newman
Dec 09, 2014
I was fortunate to be able to spend the past week visiting London, which was a good reminder that perception of weather is partially dependent on where you are from, where you live, and whether you have...
Dedication doesn’t falter amid fresh destruction
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 03, 2023
It’s been a calamitous couple of weeks for storm-battered skilled nursing operators and many of the dedicated people who work in them.
CCJR makes us look at delivery of long-term care
By
Ravi Komatireddy, M.D., Howard Weiss, M.D.
Nov 18, 2015
Bundled payments are an effort to create a fixed target price for a DRG or group of DRGs that include a group medical services.
Butler County should take the addicts
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 24, 2014
It’s not a secret most county nursing homes are hemorrhaging money. That’s why I was intrigued by a Butler County (OH) proposal to allow heroin addicts to stay short-term in the county-owned...
Hooray! More red tape!
By
John O'Connor
Dec 05, 2018
Remember all the noise we heard about the government’s commitment to trimming regulatory excess?
Feeling a bit run down? Blame the third shift
By
John O'Connor
Jan 31, 2014
Long-term care professionals must be on hand to work the dreaded third shift, given the 24/7 nature of the job. For some caregivers, that means extra difficulties getting through an overnight shift. New...
The reaction to ACOs? Ouch!
By
James M. Berklan
May 16, 2011
I haven’t heard them pronounced this way yet, but long-term care providers might want to consider it when it comes to ACOs. Instead of spelling it out, as in A-C-O, say it phonetically, as in “Ache-O.”
Long-term care in the best setting? Now that’s a hoot.
By
John O'Connor
Sep 28, 2020
When we don’t like what we see or hear, most of us can turn on the raging cave man/cave woman switch awfully fast.
Alzheimer’s a tough nut to crack
By
Liza Berger
Oct 01, 2009
If there is any subject that attracts readers’ attention it is Alzheimer’s disease. It seems that every story we publish about the disease–from any angle–finds its way to the “Most...
What I learned from a group of engaged senior care leaders
By
Nancy Anderson, RN, MA
Sep 20, 2018
Impacting employee engagement and retention starts with senior leaders.