If you can create an atmosphere of gratitude in your setting, you will have created a place where people want to be.
The costs of (not) saving time
By
Elizabeth Newman
Aug 01, 2017
A study last week confirmed what I often discuss with my friends, which is that money really can buy happiness when it’s used to increase time.
And the Oscar goes to…
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Jan 28, 2020
Rather than stew about the overdressed, self-congratulators flaunting at the Academy Awards ceremony, I’ve decided to give out my own Oscars — to the loving, deserving stakeholders in the various...
Q&A with Walter Collins: Admins facing ‘new world’
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Haymarket Media
Mar 22, 2004
Administrators today need to be able to juggle more tasks than ever before to “maintain their sanity,” says the incoming leader of the American College of Health Care Administrators. Plus he...
When technology fails us: ‘We talk’
By
Steven Littlehale
Dec 19, 2016
Driving my Grandma to one of her favorite restaurants to celebrate a significant birthday (she prefers that I don’t specify which) offered me an important lesson in communication.
Related business interests fueling operator activity in skilled nursing: lender
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 04, 2021
HOUSTON — Ancillary businesses that depend on access to nursing homes helped to sustain interest in the skilled nursing market throughout 2021, even as census labored below 2019 levels, according to...
5 ways to increase occupancy with LGBT and ally residents
By
Hilary Meyer
Nov 07, 2016
Plus, we know that LGBT older adults are less likely to access care, and when they do, they feel they have to go back into the closet in order to minimize the risk of being mistreated.
Life after mechanical ventilation: A new accreditation to improve outcomes
By
Nathaniel Miller
Dec 04, 2023
Mechanical ventilation is the most common intervention for patients admitted to ICUs to allow them to breathe sufficiently on their own. However, prolonged mechanical ventilation can lead to a host of...
Cutting into costs
By
John Hall
Jan 04, 2016
A look inside the mind of lenders in the wake of a skilled nursing cost comparison report reveals reasons for optimism — and concern
Potential residents will be plentiful for long-term operators in the very near future, but will service...
By
John Hall
Nov 02, 2018
Demographic analysis clearly shows long-term care will have a substantially larger number of potential residents within the next five to seven years. Some long-term care leaders have predicted as a matter...