While employee retention is always a top priority, operating in a pandemic intensifies the urgency to hire and maintain competent, committed staff. Since the first three months of employment are particularly...
While employee retention is always a top priority, operating in a pandemic intensifies the urgency to hire and maintain competent, committed staff. Since the first three months of employment are particularly...
While the COVID-19 pandemic presses on, the period of social isolation is keeping families from visiting and spending time with loved ones in nursing homes. The challenge of keeping residents 6 feet apart...
New survey numbers from the American Health Care Association paint an industry portrait that is anything but flattering. Shocking might be more like it.
In 1997, a group of 32 people gathered in Rochester, New York, with a belief that the world of nursing homes should and could be different. They decided to formalize their gathering, named themselves the...
Fret no more. I’ve figured out how to get plenty of COVID-19 testing to take place at nursing homes. The federal government may have wished for more testing of residents and workers, but my plan has...
If we have learned anything during this pandemic it is that we cannot go at this alone.
Skilled nursing facilities have faced unprecedented challenges since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Individuals with many high-risk characteristics are the typical patients of these facilities....
An Aug. 19 webinar aimed at nurses, aides, administrators, therapy staff and others will teach five keys to protecting residents from pressure injuries.
In my second installment of “Things we can learn from the pandemic,” COVID-19 may force private equity to take a good, hard look at what it is doing in the skilled nursing space.