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The best columns of 2020
By
Danielle Brown
Dec 22, 2020
With December nearing its end, we took the opportunity to see which blog postings at mcknights.com were the most popular with McKnight’s Long-Term Care News readers in 2020. This list details some of...
The peculiar puzzle
By
Julie Thorson
Dec 09, 2020
As we are looking for things to do at home, we’ve returned to the “good ol’ days” of jigsaw puzzles. Of course, my husband and son made fun of me as I spent afternoons working on them only to have...
Dec. 16 webinar to offer expertise on staffing, scheduling
By
Liza Berger
Dec 02, 2020
Staffing has never been more important than it is now in long-term care. A McKnight’s webinar to take place on Wednesday, Dec. 16, at 1 p.m. ET will provide information to providers on improving...
Nursing homes ‘really at the brink’: Providers beg families to not visit for Thanksgiving
By
Danielle Brown
Nov 24, 2020
Providers across the country are pleading with residents’ families and loved ones to find alternative ways to celebrate the upcoming holidays in order to prevent further disaster at nursing homes.
Future survey success hinges on audits of emergency preparedness plans: expert
By
Danielle Brown
Nov 16, 2020
It’s crucial for providers to be able to document and demonstrate their emergency preparedness and how they responded to the COVID-19 pandemic as survey activities resume across the country, according...
Frustration amplified
By
Julie Thorson
Nov 11, 2020
Last year around this same time I shared with you my thoughts on residents and families who complain. I stand by what I wrote last year, and in 2020 I’ve come to appreciate in a new way the...
Daiya Healthcare moves into Hawaii
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 11, 2020
Daiya Healthcare, a provider group specializing in post-acute and long-term care medicine, expanded operations into Hawaii with clinicians, offering primary care, psychiatry, palliative care and pain management...
Do you speak 2020?
By
Julie Thorson
Oct 14, 2020
In the course of just seven months, words and phrases have taken on a life of their own. They aren’t just words: They are topics for debate, fuel for bitter arguments, tools for discussion and will evoke...
Testing rules, requirements are ‘unsustainable’: operator
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 01, 2020
Even with additional testing resources from the federal government, one nursing home operator said current costs combined with new surveillance requirements are simply “unsustainable.”