Although many struggle as they strive for perfection, Stephanie Maupin, the executive director of Brentwood at Elkhart Assisted Living in Elkhart, IN, seems to have achieved it with ease.
Meet Desirae Toomey, 2023 Rising Star
By
Amy Novotney
Aug 11, 2023
Learn more about Desirae Toomey, Administrator, Home- and Community-Based Services, Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society (Sanford Home Health), Sioux Falls, SD.
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...
‘Bodacious’ mentorship, honesty needed to retain LTC leaders of tomorrow, experts say
By
Josh Henreckson
May 17, 2024
Cultivating mentorships in long-term care is vital to bringing up and retaining the next generation of sector leaders, a group of six prominent women leaders said this week at a McKnight’s Women of Distinction...
Meet Necia Jeske, 2023 Spirit Award winner
By
Rachael Zimlich
Jul 21, 2023
Learn more about Necia Jeske, Director of Nursing, The Bay at Suring Health and Rehabilitation, Champion Care, Suring, WI.
Meet Bonnie Laiderman, 2022 Hall of Honor inductee
By
C. Max Bachmann
Jul 28, 2022
Bonnie Laiderman founded Veterans Home Care in 2003 when she discovered a need among disabled, elderly veterans and their surviving spouses. Today, the organization is a national leader in home care and...
Meet Kristina Wright, 2022 Rising Star honoree
By
C. Max Bachmann
Aug 08, 2022
Editor’s Note: McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, McKnight’s Senior Living and McKnight’s Home Care are profiling the McKnight’s 2022 Women of Distinction honorees daily July 5 through Aug. 11....
Second class of Spirit Awards features 6 inspirational women
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 09, 2023
Six women have been chosen as the second class of Spirit Award winners as part of the McKnight’s Women of Distinction program.
Meet Barbara Richards, 2022 Spirit Award winner
By
C. Max Bachmann
Jul 27, 2022
A series of tornadoes swept across the southern United States and Ohio Valley last December, decimating homes and taking the lives of numerous people. Unluckily, one of those tornadoes came barrelling...
Meet Cassie Morris, 2022 Spirit Award winner
By
C. Max Bachmann
Jul 19, 2022
On one Friday this past December, Cassie Morris — seeing forecasts of dangerous weather conditions later in the day — called for a practice tornado drill.