For anyone doubting the viability or need to follow the skilled nursing market, the proof is before us this week.
Nursing home employees indicted for involuntary manslaughter after patient’s death from bedsores
By
Marty Stempniak
Feb 19, 2019
The Ohio attorney general has indicted seven former Columbus nursing facility workers on dozens of charges following a patient’s 2017 death from bedsores.
A tectonic shift in nursing homes
By
Michael Wasserman
Feb 15, 2019
Those lacking this type of training and experience are at a distinct disadvantage, which is why I am a fierce advocate for having geriatricians hold accountable positions of authority in organizations...
Love never fails. But …
By
Renee Kinder
Feb 14, 2019
How can we overcome working together as an interdisciplinary team while also respecting and honoring the expertise of all to ensure we are trusting, protecting, hoping and persevering together? Interprofessionalism...
A new chapter for NAHCA
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 14, 2019
NAHCA’s new membership structure is a good example of how we can sometimes dramatically change the way we budget, or even our philosophies.
You make your own luck in this business
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 13, 2019
I think one of the saddest living-under-a-permanent-raincloud stories of recent years is the one about the long-term care administrator who tried to work at the beach but get sand in his keyboard and ruined...
Judge: Health department was correct in yanking away nursing home’s Medicaid dollars after years of...
By
Marty Stempniak
Feb 13, 2019
A New Jersey nursing facility that was overpaid for a decade isn’t entitled to that rate of payment, an appeals court ruled last week.
Also in the News for Wednesday, Feb. 13
By
Marty Stempniak
Feb 13, 2019
Bill pushes for more transparency around nursing home staffing decisions … Report: Medicaid could save $1B with overhaul, including push away from SNF stays … Nursing home advocates want $83M cash...
OIG criticizes states for approving nursing homes’ plans of correction without checking them
By
Marty Stempniak
Feb 12, 2019
The Office of the Inspector General says state agencies aren’t doing enough to make sure that nursing homes are correcting deficiencies.
Sometimes you don’t need a predictive analytic when common sense will do
By
Steven Littlehale
Feb 08, 2019
Once again, we’re seeing that the importance of Five-Star outcomes has increased at a greater velocity than a cupcake out of the Magnolia Bakery.