Recovering extroverts pay attention to what I’m about to say. Being quiet is OK. Speaking from experience, disciplining yourself to not speak is as important if not more important than talking. I’ve...
Inspirational yogurt and other motivation
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Sep 13, 2022
When I pulled off the yogurt lid and licked it clean (because that’s what we all do right?), I saw these words: “Try again.”
Up from the ashes
By
Gary Tetz
Sep 08, 2022
With the president of AHCA predicting a difficult 2023, it confirmed just how tough a slog the road back from the darkest days of the pandemic will likely continue to be for long-term care. But if we’re...
CQAPI: A modern process born from a pandemic
By
Amy S. Chidester
Aug 23, 2022
After orchestrating thousands of QAPI meetings over 20-plus years in long-term care, I want to share how you can rework an old process into a much more effective, modern technique called “Comprehensive...
Impact of Section GG, ANAs and Social Risk Factors (SRFs) on PAC outcomes
By
Renee Kinder
Aug 18, 2022
Tuesday evening, I began the painful eye roll-inducing process of organizing and sorting school supplies for our official start today. Two high schoolers, two middle schoolers, and one lower schooler...
Over the Moon
By
Julie Thorson
Aug 17, 2022
Self-care in leadership is an overused, under practiced phrase. There is no such thing as work-life “balance.” There are times when we all dedicate an unequal amount of time to our profession. In long-term...
Pleading the Fifth
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Aug 16, 2022
We all know that political and notable figures of all kinds have the ultimate “out” available when being asked questions of substance by authorities. They can just invoke the Fifth Amendment. That’s...
The evolution of a pandemic
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Aug 12, 2022
As the pandemic becomes endemic, we can’t drop the push to vaccinate.
LTC insurance sales suddenly surge
By
Stephen A. Moses
Aug 10, 2022
Long-term care is a high risk and huge potential cost for aging Americans. Yet few plan ahead, and fewer still insure privately for this impending peril. Until now. Private insurers report that 140,000...
Justice delayed is justice denied — especially in skilled nursing
By
Alan C. Horowitz, Esq., RN
Aug 09, 2022
Let’s try a little thought experiment. Imagine you are the owner or operator of a skilled nursing facility. Or, you are the director of nursing, administrator, therapist, nurse aide or physician. ...