There is many a manager who has been told “work on the budget” and left to sink or swim. If that’s different in your facility — that is, if each nurse manager is giving a course in...
Ask the payment expert
By
Patricia Boyer
Sep 01, 2007
What should our facility do to minimize our risk of medical review?
A nudge toward budgeting
By
Elizabeth Newman
May 22, 2012
There is many a manager who has been told “work on the budget” and left to sink or swim. If that’s different in your facility — that is, if each nurse manager is giving a course in...
We need transparent solutions rather than excuses
By
Michael Wasserman
Apr 10, 2024
Financial success and sustainability are at the heart of the fiduciary responsibility duty. Physician leaders must balance the potential conflict between their Hippocratic Oath and fiduciary responsibility. ...
Owners & investors: Must-have survival discussions to have with operators on managing SNF assets
By
Alex S. Paley, MPH
Sep 22, 2022
The “new normal” for those who operate skilled nursing facilities is not so new anymore. Staffing and labor shortages that at one time would have been labeled as unthinkable are now the everyday...
Why we need to audit our way into cost savings
By
Michael Wilson
May 05, 2022
Long-term care facilities are getting whammed by inflation. Everything they purchase, from food to nursing supplies, has gone up in recent months. Meanwhile, staffing costs have also jumped tremendously...
Losing steam
By
John Andrews
Feb 06, 2008
The eldercare real estate market may no longer be red-hot, but it is largely insulated from the residential sector collapse.
Housing market fear doesn’t affect long-term care confidence
By
Liza Berger
Oct 01, 2007
While the rest of the housing market is gripped by credit fears, those in long-term care are staying confident.