What does it mean to win post-acute care? There aren’t any trophies involved, no big acceptance speeches in front of the industry. What winning providers do have, however, is a deep understanding...
The best thing you’ll read all week
By
Tim Mullaney
Sep 10, 2013
My grandmother passed away on Sept. 1. In the days since, those who knew and loved her have celebrated her life and mourned her passing together — and the obituary we wrote for her has gone viral on...
How to respond to growing threat of multi-drug resistant organisms focus of Aug. 24 webinar
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 12, 2021
Candida auris. Methicillin/oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Vancomycin-resistant enterococci. The growing list of multi-drug resistant organisms is enough to worry any nursing home leader. These...
Oct. 2 webcast to give leadership tactics, clinical tools to help LTC providers avert rehospitalizations
By
McKnight's Staff
Sep 06, 2012
Participants at a free McKnight’s webcast on Oct.2 will learn about leadership and operational tactics, as well as clinical strategies, that can promote critical thinking among staff members. Attendees...
Rains joins new CPP group
Feb 25, 2014
Catherine Rains has become a solutions consultant at CPP’s Professional Services Group. CPP is the exclusive publisher of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Conducting and documenting meaningful fire drills in LTC facilities
By
Stan Szpytek
Apr 16, 2024
From some of our earliest memories in elementary school as little kids, we all recall participating in fire drills on a periodic basis. Of course, the purpose of those fire drills was to train students,...
Welch leads Clare Oaks
Mar 03, 2015
Beth Welch has been named the CEO of Clare Oaks, a continuing care retirement community in Bartlett, IL. She joined Clare Oaks as executive director in 2013.
Watertown Square has an executive director
Aug 13, 2013
Susan C. Cwieka is the new executive director of Watertown Square, a 90-apartment senior community, in Watertown, MA. The Residence at Watertown Square is scheduled to open in the fall of 2014.
Avalere Health welcomes Fuller
Mar 14, 2014
Brian Fuller began as a director at Avalere Health in early March.
“They know me. They remember who I am.”
By
Beth Sanders
Nov 21, 2012
The life story is not a “nice to have” document – it is essential to delivering quality. If memory loss begins and progresses, the details of his or her life story would serve as the...