Mainstream media bring added scrutiny to nursing home staffing rule
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 10, 2024
While nursing home operators have been intensively fighting against a national staffing mandate since it was proposed more than two years ago, the general public and the media that serve it only more...
Rolling the DICE on dementia care
By
Martie Moore
Jun 07, 2024
The Mother loved flowers, gardening and butterflies. She was a master shopper and enjoyed the hunt for a good sale. The first incident occurred in a butterfly exhibit. Butterflies were flying around them,...
Registration for new ‘Meeting of the Minds’ LTC webinars underway
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 07, 2024
The inaugural McKnight’s “Meeting of the Minds” event will take place June 27, bringing providers and other sector stakeholders access to a groundbreaking gathering of thought leaders on major topics...
Ask the nursing expert … about retention
By
Amy Stewart
Jun 07, 2024
What can be done to help staff retention?
Stretchy electronic skin mimics human sensitivity
By
Amy Novotney
Jun 07, 2024
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new kind of electronic skin that stretches, bends, and senses touch and pressure with the same sensitivity as human skin.
Ask the payment expert … about IV fluids
By
Eleisha Wilkes, RN, RAC-CTA, RAC-CT, DNS-CT
Jun 07, 2024
Our reimbursement specialist says we’ve missed several opportunities to code IV fluids given at the hospital on the 5-day PPS assessment. How is this information reported and supported?
McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards winners take center stage
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 07, 2024
CHICAGO — A sold-out crowd celebrated the second class of McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards winners in a lively spring event that combined networking with unabashed appreciation for some of the aging services...
How to … use AI to manage patient medications
By
John Hall
Jun 07, 2024
From accelerating the introduction of important new medicines and improving ordering and inventory processes, to helping older adults better manage multiple prescriptions, artificial intelligence’s reach...
Victim blaming at its finest, unfortunately
By
John O'Connor
Jun 07, 2024
The nation’s leading spokesman for the US nursing home sector recently made an interesting observation about what might be called the current plight of many frontline workers in long-term care.
The saddle in the garage
By
Gary Tetz
Jun 07, 2024
For decades after his last ride, it rested on a sawhorse in a darkened corner of my father’s garage — his favorite Western saddle.