FHA-backed mortgages are becoming popular with long-term care facilities as conventional banks are increasingly uncertain about the impact healthcare reform and financing will have on providers’...
How to do it… Transportation
By
McKnight's Staff
Apr 01, 2010
Running an efficient, punctual transportation system within a long-term care facility is more difficult than it might first appear.
How to do it… Design
Dec 01, 2009
Increasingly, designers are becoming more creative in designing and furnishing living spaces in long-term care facilities.
The design dilemma
By
Julie Williamson
Jan 03, 2011
As facilities consider whether to go hospitality or homelike, many are doing a little bit of both. The effect can be comfortable spaces with a touch of luxury
The importance of data accuracy
By
Steven Littlehale
Apr 10, 2013
Has a day gone by when you haven’t heard about a new healthcare reform requirement coming of age? This month skilled nursing facilities were supposed to have started having an operational compliance...
Profile: Organization man — Andy Stern, SEIU President
By
Liza Berger
Jan 09, 2007
Don’t call Andy Stern a “union boss.”
“That’s a name from the past,” says the most well-known labor leader in the United States. He is speaking from the Washington headquarters...
Stay home when sick, and go on vacation already
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 15, 2016
Far too many of the US workforce, especially in areas such as healthcare and the service industry, have little to no paid vacation time or sick leave.
Fighting Zika and other mosquito-transmitted illnesses
By
Ron Harrison, Ph.D.
May 30, 2016
In addition to Zika, mosquitoes are known carriers of several diseases like the West Nile and Chikungunya viruses.
Home is where the heart is
By
Jennifer Petrea, RN
May 07, 2014
There is nothing greater than the reward of wisdom I have acquired through my experience as a nurse. In fact, the biggest reason I became a nurse was to have the opportunity to experience the world through...
Don’t look left: Finding long-term care lessons in traffic
By
Gary Tetz
Feb 24, 2022
If you’ve read many of my McKnight’s columns over the years, you know I love to draw long-term care lessons from traffic experiences.