Gold in the Keep It Super Simple category goes to RiverSpring Living
By
Foster Stubbs
Dec 04, 2023
In senior living communities across the country, fall prevention always remains a top priority. RiverSpring Living aimed to improve its fall prevention efforts through the use of the NexStride gait device. ...
Unions to the rescue?
By
John O'Connor
Oct 16, 2023
Ben Franklin famously assured us life has two guarantees. They are higher taxes and death. If Ben were alive today and owned a nursing home, he’d probably add a third: Unions will ruin everything.
Some people with acute kidney injury on dialysis too long, study finds
By
Kristen Fischer
Sep 29, 2023
People with acute kidney injury who need outpatient dialysis after getting out of the hospital are often put on dialysis indefinitely — something that could put them at unnecessary risk for other problems,
Feeling stressed? Use your chopsticks
By
Gary Tetz
Mar 04, 2024
We’ve long known that mindfulness programs can improve the physical and emotional well-being of nursing home residents — and the rest of us too.
‘Appalling’ gaps in law, policies blamed for COVID’s decimation of nursing home workers
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 01, 2024
A reason for the failure, the authors said, was gaps in laws and regulations that didn’t consider the rapid spread of disease in workplaces and didn’t see frontline workers as needing special attention...
Market it like a tattoo
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Nov 07, 2023
I was driving and listening to the radio last week and I heard an interesting marketing campaign. Apparently, to get people to vacation in Acapulco, the city’s newest campaign to get tourists is to offer...
AARP litigators blame nursing home HQs for staffing problems, publicize legal strategies against them
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 18, 2023
Nursing homes could find themselves open to civil rights and consumer protection lawsuits if the AARP Foundation Litigation unit is successful in three cases it is currently pursuing against operators.
Meet Kirsten Goulde, 2023 Hall of Honor inductee
By
Ron Rajecki
Jul 27, 2023
Learn more about Kirsten Goulde, Senior Vice President of Human Resources, Oakmont Management Group, Irvine, CA.
Being thankful 2023
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Nov 21, 2023
Ah yes, it is the time of year when we think about the things we are thankful for. I would guess that most people have some kind of tradition on Thanksgiving of expressing thanks. In our home, we...
When judges play favorites
By
John O'Connor
Aug 27, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board gave skilled care operators another kick to the gut Friday.