It sits, beckoning but unattainable, just outside the entrance to your long-term care facility — the Visitor parking spot. You can see it, but don’t dare use it. Every day, in big, block letters,...
Things I think: Surviving the treadmill
By
Gary Tetz
Mar 08, 2018
Exercise can be hazardous to your health. Like antipsychotics, its pursuit should include a black box warning that atypical, or even typical, fitness attempts carry increased risk of injury and embarrassment....
The LTC Zen master
Jul 04, 2016
It was just meaningless workplace chatter, signifying nothing.
Things I Think: Lessons from the lobby
By
Gary Tetz
May 08, 2018
For a microcosm of life in perpetual motion, its pleasures and challenges, and every accompanying human emotion, it’s not necessary to loiter at the airport. Just sit quietly in the lobby of any...
Senior living executives sentenced
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 10, 2018
The former chief operating officer of American Senior Communities was sentenced to 4½ years in prison last week as part of a fraud scheme that also took down the company’s CEO.
APM paradise found
By
Gary Tetz
Jul 06, 2017
Everyone’s talking about Alternative Payment Models (APMs) these days. Providers. Consultants. Cab drivers. Baristas. Everyone.
Non-virtual anti-reality, please
By
Gary Tetz
Feb 23, 2017
I won’t be taking up virtual reality advocacy anytime soon, but it has nothing to do with vertigo or motion sickness. I’m simply not actively seeking additional reality in my life.
Latest Medicare fraud allegations just an appetizer
By
John O'Connor
May 10, 2013
As we’ve been predicting here for some time, allegations of mismanaged therapy care are starting to land nursing homes in some seriously hot water.
Bake in success with advanced clinicians in place: BrightSpring Health’s Arif Nazir, MD
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 26, 2023
Many nursing homes are moving too quickly to implement evolving technologies before their worth is fully known, cautions national nursing home medical expert Arif Nazir.