Expanding horizons to include telemedicine in skilled nursing facilities
By
Viktoriya Friedman, MSPT
Jul 11, 2014
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, the author described how hospitals are using interactive video to give patients more access to medical care. So why not nursing homes?
When crisis hits
By
Shane Swisher
Feb 27, 2012
Unfortunate events can occur anywhere, at any time, including in long-term care. How a company handles the situation is what determines whether it’s perceived as a success or failure.
A table on the patio
By
Gary Tetz
Sep 07, 2023
Through countless decades, multiple relationships and what feels like dozens of marriages (actually only two, but it’s still early today), this is pretty much the extent of my accrued knowledge: Women...
When good men say nothing
By
Gary Tetz
Aug 05, 2021
Though Genesis HealthCare is making vaccinations for long-term care workers mandatory, I’m not so foolish as to reveal my own true feelings about the requirement. I fear the warring ghosts of liberty...
Getting noticed by ACOs
By
Kristy Wikum
Aug 12, 2014
Accountable care organizations were created to promote better care and better health for individuals and populations at a lower cost. They must identify providers that excel in areas not covered by ACOs...
Relaxed enforcement for telehealth is over
By
Neville M. Bilimoria
Apr 19, 2023
Well, we knew it might happen sometime. We saw the silver lining of COVID-19 these past few years in the form of relaxed rules by the government to allow for the easier implementation and proliferation...
Human-computer interaction
By
Adam Saalman
Jul 13, 2022
In my last post, I mentioned having worked on both sides of the fence as a full-time employee with a single organization and as a consultant where I went between many different client sites to implement...
The tongue is mightier than the sword
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jun 15, 2021
Full disclosure: This blog was inspired by a recent sermon on James 3, which mentions how much damage we can do with what we say. The tongue weighs an average of 70 grams and is 3.3 inches in men and 60...
How we celebrated Pride Month
By
Moshe Pretter
Jul 10, 2019
We are ideally positioned to offer our premier care center as a safe haven for all of our guest, including those in the LGBTQA community.
Ageism in LTC
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Oct 26, 2021
As I listened last week to a web event on confronting ageism in healthcare, I found myself nodding in agreement with the participants, who were all themselves nodding at the comments of their collaborators. ...