Technology, advocacy required to empower workers in LTC, healthcare’s ‘hardest setting’
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
Facing the reality that most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics, skilled nursing and senior living leaders are both going back to the basics and seizing on innovation to grow their direct care...
Meet Kurt Merkelz, MD, 2024 McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards ‘Setting the Standard’ honoree
By
Jessica R. Towhey
May 09, 2024
Kurt Merkelz, MD, led the recent standardization of best practices throughout Compassus through the development of tools and procedures built into the organization’s interoperability platform. This effort...
Orah Burack diligently works out of the spotlight, keeping her head down and her mind focused on improving care and conditions throughout long-term care. Her work as a senior research associate at The...
Wendella “Wendy” Blackman carries the weight of responsibility in her heart. As the director of Reflections memory care program at senior living community The Bristal at North Woodmere, NY, the residents...
This is (really!) it. Wednesday is final deadline for 2022 Women of Distinction entries
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 07, 2022
The final entry period for the 2022 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program arrives at midnight Wednesday. That still leaves plenty of time to fill out the basic entry form as a way to gain some...
Esmerelda Lee emigrated from South Africa during apartheid, planning to study medicine in the United States. What she may not have expected was that her model of steadfast leadership and commitment to...
Meet Mary Franklin, 2023 Spirit Award winner
By
Rachael Zimlich
Jul 12, 2023
Learn more about Mary Franklin, Executive Director, Cypress Cove, Fort Myers, FL.
Friday is the new final deadline for 2024 Women of Distinction nominations
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 09, 2024
This Friday, Jan. 12, is the final nomination deadline for the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program. All submissions must be received by 11:59 p.m. ET.
McKnight’s 40 for 40: Robert G. Kramer
By
John O'Connor
Feb 24, 2020
When people discuss how freely capital now flows in this sector, demographics and a strong economy usually get the credit. Often overlooked is the man perhaps most responsible for opening the spigot: Robert...
Meet Beth Burnham Mace, Hall of Honor inductee
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 22, 2020
Over the past two decades, Beth Burnham Mace’s work has helped turn the senior housing and care sector into a mainstream institutional investment asset class by increasing transparency to a wide range...