Fishing for regulatory relief
What happens when providers and regulators disagree about how best to interpret a vague regulation?
What happens when providers and regulators disagree about how best to interpret a vague regulation?
This week’s Supreme Court hearing on the Chevron case brought a tough choice into focus. In a nutshell, the High Court is going to let us know whether administrative agencies like CMS will continue to...
A phenomenon that skilled nursing teams have long appreciated was recently highlighted in a recent article published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers Ehrenzeller and Klompas shed light on a critical...
In the early 2000s I was called into a meeting at work that lasted two hours but changed my professional perspective on dementia care. At that meeting, our speaker was Naomi Feil. Mrs. Feil introduced...
Designing inclusive and accessible healthcare spaces can be a challenging experience, especially when architects and planners must heed guidelines that don’t always comprehensively address the needs...
When you’re driving among heavy traffic, do you ever suddenly find yourself in a right turn-only lane? And you have like 50 feet to get over to the left, or you are forced to turn right? Who in the world...
Sun Tzu is credited with being the first person to say “Keep your friends close; keep your enemies closer.” That was good advice when he lived about 2,500 years ago. It remains good advice today.
I stood outside, looking at the building. It was nondescript and blended into the landscape as if to say, “I am unimportant.” I am ashamed that I had fleeting thoughts about the care of individuals...
The plight of rural nursing homes has been forewarned for a while, with little improvement. But now the pandemic, followed by the threat of a federal staffing mandate, is expediting what seems to be a...
Usually, we can safely rely on seniors to set an inspiring example for younger folks to emulate. They unselfishly share the wisdom acquired with age to help successive generations overcome current challenges,...