Strategic issues for PDPM on Oct. 14
A must-attend webinar on the Patient Drive Payment Model will present an executive review of the key data and compliance issues. The CE-available session starts at 1 p.m. ET Oct. 14 and features well-known...
You’re too good for your own good
In this pandemic year of profound challenges, we discovered innovation and creativity like no other.
Get up, Bambi
At this point, we dare not muse aloud about what else could possibly go wrong in 2020. It’s no longer about the second shoe dropping. We appear to be dealing with an evil centipede who still has at least...
Seeing beyond the tip of the iceberg: How data is helping senior living communities prevent falls, protect residents
We all know that the leading cause of fatal and nonfatal injuries in the over-65s remains the humble (yet hazardous) fall. While some 25% of seniors fall each year, that figure rises to an incredible 50-75%...
The test of testing: Why is it so difficult to screen staffers?
The No. 1 priority of all skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic remains resident safety. That’s not even a question, as those operating SNFs serve a population that...
How Great are we at handling this pandemic? Not so much
Ultimately, historians may talk about this period as a test of how Great the rest of us are in trying to protect the Greatest Generation.
Can’t touch this or just so gross
I am working on putting together a bunch of infection and prevention presentations and it got me thinking of all the stuff we touch in a day, as a nurse. It’s, well, remarkable.
Measuring resident engagement with the Resident Engagement Index Score (REIS) assessment tool
The pursuit of purpose is a basic human right. Older adults in senior living and long-term care communities deserve to experience meaningful engagement every day. As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded...
Lack of unified action is killing our Greatest Generation
If I were to propose that the Greatest Generation wasn’t really all that great, that those leading the fight during WWII didn’t know what they were doing or, worse, manipulating media messages in order...
Long-term care in the best setting? Now that’s a hoot.
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.
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