Good practices keep out ‘bad actors’
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, long-term care facilities must keep the ill and elderly safe even as their resources are stretched and staff turnover increases. With each new hire, there is a chance...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, long-term care facilities must keep the ill and elderly safe even as their resources are stretched and staff turnover increases. With each new hire, there is a chance...
Long-term care facilities have been in the fight of their lives – and for the lives of their residents – since March. In addition to the usual regulatory requirements, facilities must deal with COVID-19...
When Donald Trump upset Hillary Clinton to capture the presidency in 2016, I was a bit surprised.
Amid the horrors of the coronavirus pandemic, there was a hopeful glimpse of healthcare’s future. And it came from the very epicenter of the outbreak — Wuhan, China — where in the early days of March,...
Although the outcome of the biggest political race Tuesday isn’t known yet, long-term care providers appear to have eluded the most dangerous kind of results.
Tuesday night pizza at the Kinder home while watching election returns somehow brought up the phrase “choose kindness.” Just the right message we all need.
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During the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Medicare 1135 waiver immediately expanded the use of telehealth and bypassed HIPAA requirements, allowing essentially any video chat application to be used...
COVID-19 continues to put nursing home leaders and their staff through the wringer. Across the country, case rates in the general population are rising again. At the same time, the financial survival of...
What’s it going to take to protect nursing home residents from the coronavirus? As the pandemic wears on after eight months, making its daily trudge across the United States and back, one answer...