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...
Improving the delivery of quality care in behavioral health programs has been a priority for Jessica Fear for more than a quarter of a century. Fear advocates for the use of data to inform and identify...
Meet Kurt Merkelz, MD, 2024 McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards ‘Setting the Standard’ honoree
By
Jessica R. Towhey
May 09, 2024
Kurt Merkelz, MD, led the recent standardization of best practices throughout Compassus through the development of tools and procedures built into the organization’s interoperability platform. This effort...
McKnight’s Workforce Development Forum
May 16, 2024
The event kicks off Thursday, May 16 @ 10:30am ET.
Esmerelda Lee emigrated from South Africa during apartheid, planning to study medicine in the United States. What she may not have expected was that her model of steadfast leadership and commitment to...
Technology, advocacy required to empower workers in LTC, healthcare’s ‘hardest setting’
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Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
Facing the reality that most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics, skilled nursing and senior living leaders are both going back to the basics and seizing on innovation to grow their direct care...
Prioritizing patient-centered care: How senior living leaders are providing a superior healthcare experience
Mar 28, 2024
Long-term care providers are turning to value-based care partnerships to give seniors what they really want and need. Through these partnerships, healthcare providers can improve patient health outcomes...
Lynn Hood to receive 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award
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James M. Berklan
Mar 12, 2024
Lynn Hood, a long-term care executive well-known for answering the call to act under emergency conditions and being a champion of employees, has been chosen as this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award...
2nd annual McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards gala honors veteran leaders at their peak
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2024
A sold-out crowd celebrated the second class of McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards winners Thursday night in a lively event that combined networking with unabashed appreciation for some of the aging services...