Making job offers stick: Learn the hiring secrets of Health Dimensions Group’s Sarah Friede
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 13, 2024
In an era of would-be hires “ghosting” recruiters, Health Dimensions Group extended 189 offers last month and locked up contracts for 150 new workers — and got all of those new workers to the job...
Lynn Hood to receive 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 12, 2024
Lynn Hood, a long-term care executive well-known for answering the call to act under emergency conditions and being a champion of employees, has been chosen as this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award...
Baseline proficiency for success with managed care payers
By
Susie Mix
Mar 11, 2024
Setting up a building with proficiencies in working with managed care payers is a key to success at this midpoint of the 2020s. Fifty-one percent of Medicare-eligible Americans are covered by Medicare...
Execs: Regional providers well-positioned to get more from skilled nursing payers, staff
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 11, 2024
The time has come for skilled nursing operators to become more assertive with payors and value-based care partners, and regional providers are uniquely positioned to reap rewards, executives say.
This ain’t no tunnel of love
By
John O'Connor
Mar 11, 2024
It seems there has always been some kind of fiscal cat-and-mouse game playing out between nursing homes and those who pay the bills.
Beyond the love meter
By
Gary Tetz
Mar 07, 2024
Love may be a many splendored thing, but it can also be elusive, at least in my experience. So when I read in McKnight’s about new “love meter” technology now available, my mind whirled with possibilities. ...
Scary ‘state’: Two-thirds of nursing home operators fear closure without staffing relief
By
Josh Henreckson
Mar 06, 2024
The long-term care sector is still struggling to rebuild to pre-pandemic staffing levels while also bracing for negative effects of new federal regulations, according to the “State of the Sector” report...
State allows first-ever nursing home-led blood transfusions to combat hospitalizations
By
Josh Henreckson
Mar 06, 2024
Three nursing homes have become the first in New York to be authorized to perform blood transfusions. That capability could be an important step in reducing expensive and uncomfortable hospital visits...
McKnight’s Product Theater
Apr 22, 2024
Presentations by Hireology and Viventium
80 skilled nursing facilities light up in ravishing red for women’s heart health
By
Foster Stubbs
Mar 05, 2024
National Wear Red Day is meant to be a show of support for women’s cardiovascular health, and this year, 80 communities backed by Marquis Health Consulting Services were seeing red — on staff...