If you wait to only react to the process, you will have to bite off more than you can chew when the deadlines come.
Recipes with something missing
By
John O'Connor
Jan 27, 2012
President Obama delivered his third State of the Union address Tuesday night. I’ll let the professional scorekeepers decide whether his hour-long presentation was up to code. My take is that the...
Republicans in the House
By
Liza Berger
Jan 06, 2011
A new party has taken control of the House of Representatives. What does that mean for healthcare and specifically long-term care? We soon shall see.
Tomorrow’s nursing homes must integrate palliative care
Jan 09, 2015
Palliative care, a form of patient-centered care focused on quality of life for the seriously ill, should be the standard of practice for all elderly patients with complex illness in nursing homes.
Harnessing the power of millennials to further long-term care
By
Marty Stempniak
Jun 08, 2018
The impending wave of aging individuals, requiring all kinds of care and support, is unlike anything we’ve seen before. So, maybe long-term care’s counterpunch should come from an unorthodox...
How will PBJ impact Five-Star staffing? Would you like one lump or two?
By
Steven Littlehale
Mar 30, 2018
We don’t know when, and we don’t know how, but when Payroll-Based Journal staffing data replaces the data currently being captured from CMS Form 671 for calculating Five-Star staffing, we are...
Medicare complainers line up here for help
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 27, 2017
If you’ve had some kind of complaint about the rigmarole of Medicare lately — and who hasn’t? — now’s the time to start getting it fixed.
Factoring in social risk to your value-based strategy
By
Ryan Sparks
Feb 22, 2017
Providers that were hoping to see adjustments to value-based purchasing programs based on the social risk factors of the patients they serve may likely have to wait until larger revisions to healthcare...
Why managed care is good for long-term care
By
Joseph Healy, Ph.D.
Jun 21, 2012
Managed long-term care can provide a solution to many challenges facing providers. Coordinating patients’ care, working with family members, and focusing on the right type of treatment can lead to...
The Girl Scout Law, a gem for the ages
By
Mary Gustafson
Mar 15, 2012
I suspect there’s one task that unites us all: ordering, distributing and systematically demolishing a box (or two, or three …) of Girl Scout cookies.