Start your disaster communications plan with a reliable network
Calling for help or to check on loved ones, or following news updates or alerts from weather centers and emergency agencies is no longer where contingency planning has to start.
Is your approach to patient-centered care out of alignment?
These days, patient-center care seems to be this sector’s Holy Grail, and for good reason.
Bring the wonder of nature to residents
Raising butterflies can be a great activity for skilled nursing or senior living resident.
Trump’s proposed budget is an attack on Medicare
In March 2015, President Donald Trump, on Twitter, stated, “I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied...
People read this stuff?
Will He Who Shall Not be Named start tweeting about me now? Will I get a pejorative nickname like Lyin’ Ted or Crooked HIllary? Testy Tetz perhaps?
Stop doing what doesn’t work for UTIs
Researchers emphasize that clinicians must think more critically before reacting to urinary tract infection symptoms. And they have the numbers to back it up.
Mind-blowing research that all skilled nursing providers can use
LeadingAge might not spring jarring new study results on us all that often, but when it does, look out.
Is long-term care a flea market?
Recently, I overheard a business office manager speaking on the phone to a managed care company, which after approving dozens of patients, kept denying payments — without giving a reason, of course....
Kucala to serve as DON
Suzie Kucala, RN, is the new director of nursing at Arlington Health and Rehabilitation in Snohomish County, WA.
Snoddy promoted at Encompass
Greg Snoddy is the new Executive Vice President of Healthcare Sales for Encompass Group. He will manage both acute-care and senior living sales channels. As a 20-year Encompass veteran, he was promoted...
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