The first time I met Muhammad Ali was the most memorable. I wound up in his hotel room with a handful of others, watching him perform magic tricks as numerous jiggling young bombshells showered him with...
Pay cuts could wipe out labs, hurt nursing homes
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 05, 2014
When it comes to worries about how Medicare doctors will be paid, nursing home operators have thought they should stand at the front of a long and anxious line. Truth be told, they have some stiff competition...
Time to look beyond ‘inward’ to ‘upward’
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 20, 2019
Pressures on immigrants can hurt long-term care in numerous ways.
Arbitration clauses and tearing the baby in two
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 16, 2019
In case you’ve been sleeping since late yesterday or doing something else like, oh, taking care of frail and elderly patients, you might have missed the big news: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
When division is a good thing, and Tuesday’s real winner
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 06, 2020
Although the outcome of the biggest political race Tuesday isn’t known yet, long-term care providers appear to have eluded the most dangerous kind of results.
Larry Minnix’s next act: Best-selling author
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 24, 2018
Larry Minnix has always been one of the best writers around. And he’s not even a writer by trade, we professionals have always agonized with jealous
What PDPM really stands for
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 17, 2019
If you’ve toiled around the skilled nursing field and been awake at the same time over the last year, you might have noticed there’s this PDPM thing that seems to be grabbing a lot of attention.
Life in the slow lane: SNF employment
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 13, 2017
With one son in college and another trying to figure out where to attend, the future job market is a topic near and dear to this writer’s heart. Believe me.
Relief over Senators reprimanding CMS? Yeah, right
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 24, 2019
Tuesday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing might have had some long-term care providers thinking they dodged a bullet. Not so fast.
Put those loudmouth family members to work
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 15, 2017
Whoever said politics makes strange bedfellows could have a field day with this one.