You work in a difficult profession — long-term care. We all know that. I’m not even going to list the myriad challenges again, for fear of manifesting them into permanence. And yet, if your existence...
Don’t let deferred maintenance compound other LTC issues
By
Jim Burke
Nov 02, 2022
One issue that’s been a longstanding problem with healthcare generally and was no doubt aggravated by developments in the last two years has been that of deferred maintenance.
When it comes to unions, representation and power aren’t in lock step
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 23, 2024
Is union power on a downswing? As ever, the answer may depend on who you ask, or how you do the math.
The skill of knowing the basics
By
Renee Kinder
Feb 16, 2023
In a world of constant chatter, revolving news streams, and search for the latest and greatest viral trend, there is a skill to shutting it all out and going back to the basics. In the realm of rehab...
Finding your PAC
By
Renee Kinder
Jul 21, 2022
Are horse people “solid people,” or are they “crazy people”? After three straight days of 5 a.m. rise-and-shines to get my daughter Emmy ready for showing, I initially said, “Girl, these people...
Nursing shortages, and why ‘nobody wants to work anymore’
By
Jean Wendland Porter
May 02, 2023
Everyone has been feeling the nursing shortage, and now the Biden administration has tightened staffing rules, and that order will become a harbinger of more skilled nursing facility crises and closings....
CQAPI: A modern process born from a pandemic
By
Amy S. Chidester
Aug 23, 2022
After orchestrating thousands of QAPI meetings over 20-plus years in long-term care, I want to share how you can rework an old process into a much more effective, modern technique called “Comprehensive...
McCool appointed senior director of admissions and marketing at Barclay Friends
By
Anjali Byju
Jun 21, 2023
Kelly McCool will be the next senior director of admissions and marketing at Barclay Friends, a Kendal-affiliated senior living community with a skilled nursing unit. McCool will continue her extensive...
On PREP Act, ‘still too early to tell’ whether providers will be immune
Jan 09, 2023
Nearly three years since it was triggered, it’s “still too early to tell” how well the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act will protect nursing homes and other healthcare...
Taking it to the streets: Reimagining dementia
By
Mary Fridley
Charles de Vilmorin
Oct 30, 2023
When Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice launched “Taking It to the Streets,” a global campaign that took place during the week of Sept. 18 to 24, 2023, one of the first people to...