Janet Snips, Executive Director, Holly Heights Nursing Center
When it comes to COVID-19, family matters!
By
Nancy Anderson, RN, MA
Sep 18, 2020
Although your residents, patients and employees are top priority, we all know there is another important group that is trying to cope with the challenges of COVID-19 … the families of your residents...
When there Is not a good answer: Dealing with an unprecedented event inside nursing homes
By
Rebekah Bray
Oct 09, 2020
The images and news coverage from the early 2020 of devastated nurses and doctors, and the thousands of body bags and make-shift morgues in New York City, are burned in the memory of healthcare workers...
One in five COVID-19 tests fail to detect virus
By
Alicia Lasek
May 27, 2020
One in five COVID-19 PCR tests deliver false negative results — and sometimes the failure rate is far worse, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers.
NY couple celebrates 70th Valentine’s Day after beating COVID
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 03, 2021
Sometimes nothing can get in the way of love — not even COVID-19.
LeadingAge publishes ‘Pandemic Playbook’
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 18, 2020
LeadingAge this week introduced the Pandemic Playbook, an interactive collection of insight, tools and best practices for serving older adults during a catastrophic health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
A mantra in wake of coronavirus: Stay home and save a life
By
Michael Wasserman
Mar 11, 2020
The year was 1985. I was an intern in the cardiac intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. A man who was the well-known voice for several animated television characters was laying on a gurney....
Game changer for long-term care? More like a game ender
By
John O'Connor
Aug 17, 2020
New survey numbers from the American Health Care Association paint an industry portrait that is anything but flattering. Shocking might be more like it.
Essential long-term care leadership on display
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 27, 2022
A top long-term care executive candidly displayed the most important traits of great leadership Thursday, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.
Damage to inner ear helps explain increased falls risk in Alzheimer’s
Mar 11, 2022
Study participants who had vestibular impairment — or damage to the inner ear’s balance system — were 50% more likely to fall than their peers who had normal function, researchers found.