Post-intensive Care Syndrome — what SNFs need to know
By
Renee Kinder
Apr 23, 2020
These are trying times, but professionally and personally they also represent great opportunities to give our patients our best.
The data is in! More trends from CMS ResDAC
By
Renee Kinder
Sep 09, 2021
All data lovers you are in luck! Another quarter of data is in, courtesy of the CMS Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC). We have all watched trends since the initiation of the Patient Driven Payment...
Therapy and the COVID fog
By
Renee Kinder
Jul 04, 2020
COVID-19, we are navigating your blinding and winding path and will arise from grips stronger than ever.
What’s your training style? Sous chef or Door Dasher?
By
Renee Kinder
Oct 10, 2019
October 1 was a day … I struggle to select the appropriate adjective to describe it appropriately. But it was a very long day.
Remember when: Reminiscence Therapy
By
Renee Kinder
Jan 31, 2019
All we have left, Mrs. Kinder, is a brand new Mercedes … We will have to upgrade your rental car this week for free. Is that going to be OK? I laugh out loud and respond, “Of course that is all you...
Love hurts PAC relationships
By
Renee Kinder
Feb 15, 2018
When it comes to developing strategic partnerships across the post-acute care spectrum, love can cloud our judgment.
RCS-Done … Tech Support, please!
By
Renee Kinder
May 10, 2018
I was all ready for my presentation on RCS-I, and then I literally lost power and had the run yanked out from under me at the same time.
The good old days: When germs were good
By
Renee Kinder
Jul 31, 2020
My household smells like the inside of a swimming pool. Literally, only Clorox will do. Walls, floors, bathrooms, kitchen, even in the laundry. Everyone here has some piece of clothing that has suffered...
Grandmother-level quality
By
Renee Kinder
Jun 21, 2018
My grandmother decided to have an elective knee replacement — at 89 years of age — followed by a stay for rehab in a skilled nursing facility. Quality matters to her and therefore I wanted to know...
Mommy, work’s all done
By
Renee Kinder
Mar 16, 2017
It’s 10:42 p.m. when I finally pull into the driveway. A six-and-a-half-hour drive home from a site visit. My in-laws’ car is not in the driveway. I take a deep breath. This means that my husband...