LATEST BREAKING: Feds ban most nursing home visitors in escalation of coronavirus fight
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 14, 2020
Federal authorities announced late Friday new restrictions on nursing home visitors in guidance aimed at protecting seniors from the novel coronavirus.
Enraged about an unfair playing field for nursing home admissions
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 21, 2017
It was not a good sign from the start. The “personal” email stiffly started “Dear Sir,” The first line only validated my gnawing feeling: “I can’t tell you how enraged...
Do your patients have ‘a right to fall’?
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 01, 2022
It doesn’t take a professional caregiver to tell you that the thought of an older, frail person falling is the stuff of nightmares.
Providers condemn visa freeze for foreign-born nurses
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 27, 2023
Add the two largest US nursing home associations to the chorus criticizing the US State Department’s cap on new employment-based visa petition filings.
The Department of Health and Human Services is sending nursing homes 750,000 COVID-19 point-of-care tests that can be administered quicker and simpler than other options already in play.
Yoga, baking and the quest for enrichment
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 12, 2020
I wish I could have been there recently when my coworker heard that I had started doing yoga.
Teen astounds with solution for wandering monitoring today, Alzheimer’s next?
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 11, 2015
Kenneth Shinozuka modestly aspires to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, and he might be just the guy to do it. He’s already created a personal sensoring system that could revolutionize the...
A jolt to long-term care best practices, amid the Ivy
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 23, 2014
This is going to sound terribly wrong on the face of it. There’s no way around it. It appears that the nation’s largest association of nursing home operators has just bought itself a whole...
When long-term care becomes a slugfest
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 06, 2023
If you ever want to see something really wrong, just watch two sides fight when both think they’re really right. It usually isn’t pretty.
BREAKING: CMS sets new vaccination targets for another 24 states
By
James M. Berklan
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 14, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Friday that providers in 24 states added to the federal vaccine mandate roster Thursday have until March 15 to become fully vaccinated.