As treatment options and regulations have expanded, so has the documentation need for care teams trying to deliver wound care.
Nancy DeFranco can look back with a bit of a wry grin now, but there was nothing...
SNF scolded for rescue
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 08, 2018
A Syracuse, NY, nursing facility was called out by state surveyors after five nurses failed to consult a resident’s chart, which contained a do-not-resuscitate order, and saved her life by using...
New May 13 McKnight’s Online Forum on COVID-19 strategies
By
James M. Berklan
May 01, 2020
Long-term care providers will get a chance to learn about more ways to deal successfully with the new coronavirus at another special McKnight’s Online Forum on Wednesday, May 13.
CMS: Phase 3 final guidance imminent, ‘a lot coming’
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 29, 2022
NEW ORLEANS — Nursing home operators can expect long-awaited final guidance on Phase 3 Requirements of Participation “very, very soon,” the federal government’s top skilled nursing official said...
Ban targets visitors, dining
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 01, 2020
Nursing homes were directed to prohibit all visitors to its facilities and cease all communal dining under federal guidance issued March 13. The directive aimed to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus,...
Suit: SNF liable for overdose
By
James M. Berklan
May 08, 2015
A nursing home owner whose former employee died of an overdose is being sued in San Luis Obispo (CA) Superior Court.
Editor’s Desk: Don’t appear too happy about hospice prosperity
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 01, 2011
When it comes to running a business, you better evolve. If you don’t, trouble will surely find you. Maybe it will even if you do.
Editor’s desk: not everyone is upset with the new nursing home five-star rating system
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 01, 2009
The first-ever public rating system for nursing homes has kept up its ability to get people talking. And calculating. And writing letters. And scratching their heads.
Heeere’s … (your new and improved) McKnight’s!
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 01, 2021
McKnight’s. As you’ve surely noticed by now, this magazine has changed since the last time you saw it. We’ve modernized our layout, content flow and logo.
Profile: Doug Burr
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 01, 2016
One thing is sure: Doug Burr has few peers, if any, in how he studies and calculates ways to better care for people, and get policy right.