While walking the beach this morning, on the Atlantic Coast where I’m taking an alleged vacation, I happened upon a marooned jellyfish left high and dry by the receding tide. Just a lifeless, weirdly...
Bundle for warmth
By
Gary Tetz
Dec 17, 2015
As the weather turns bleak and cold, the prospect of mandatory bundled payments gets more attractive all the time. Meanwhile, the flu virus is out jumping in the puddles, shrieking with unbridled joy....
Achieving best practice in a data-driven birthday environment
By
Gary Tetz
Nov 14, 2019
That’s right, it’s my birthday. I’ll pause just long enough for you to feel bad about not yet wishing me a happy one.
Sure, you’re smart. But how well do you merge?
By
Gary Tetz
Feb 21, 2019
Isn’t finding a long-term addition to the team mostly about the culture and the fit? That’s why it’s imperative to find out how he or she is likely to behave on a freeway on-ramp (or office hallway).
Grateful? Make a list
By
Gary Tetz
Sep 02, 2021
While walking reluctantly into our place of long-term care employment yesterday, a colleague and I started talking sarcastically about how delighted we were to be alive and at work. We didn’t mean a...
Transform your recruiting with the Waddling Goose Technique™
By
Gary Tetz
Jan 25, 2018
At the risk of shameless self-promotion, I’m quite sure I’ve just solved one of the great challenges facing long-term care providers — hiring the right frontline caregivers.
Sentenced to a nursing home
By
Gary Tetz
Apr 29, 2014
Here’s an innovative new way, and maybe the only one you haven’t already tried, to make sure more people visit your lonely nursing home residents. Sentence them to do it.
Life after floss
By
Gary Tetz
Aug 11, 2016
So, now we learn that flossing is probably useless. It’s not even recommended anymore. The government said so.
If this is your sole motivation, it’s not worth it
By
Gary Tetz
Jan 10, 2019
Yikes. That’s about all I can think to say here at the start of 2019 in long-term care.
Would you rather have snakes?
By
Gary Tetz
May 31, 2018
You might think you have problems in your long-term care facility. But ask yourself just one question: Would I rather have snakes?