Value-based healthcare. Bundled payments. Higher acuity patients. All pose critical challenges to the nation’s long-term care industry. Organizations are more motivated than ever before to provide...
Hit the road with your staff
By
Elizabeth Newman
Mar 17, 2017
The most delightful story in politics this week leads us to some great tips for getting to know your co-workers better, and includes a reference to Willie Nelson. What could be better than that?
4 strategies for increasing ownership in your team
By
Dennis McIntee
Mar 15, 2017
It’s possible to create your work dream team instead of settling for a drama team. Here are four quick mindsets you can incorporate today to get the drama out of your team and help them take a new...
Driving continuity of care at a private hospitalist group
By
Hung Davis, M.D.
Mar 15, 2017
Continuity of care across acute and post-acute settings is an important part of delivering quality care in today’s increasingly value-based healthcare system.
Put those loudmouth family members to work
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 15, 2017
Whoever said politics makes strange bedfellows could have a field day with this one.
The hidden threat lurking in your facility
By
Mar 14, 2017
I don’t mean to make your lives more difficult by adding another issue onto that pile, but according to a recent survey from the National Safety Council, there’s a problem plaguing American...
A mixed year ahead for SNF providers
Mar 13, 2017
It was an eventful year in 2016, especially for the seniors housing and care sector. Aging baby boomers, diminished finances and divestiture of skilled nursing facilities were topics on the mind on many...
Don’t be worried about Medicaid funding cuts — be very afraid
By
John O'Connor
Mar 13, 2017
The long-term care industry’s worst fears about what a Trump healthcare plan might contain have not just been met after last week’s unveiling, they have been far exceeded.
The LTC industry should be ashamed
By
Buffy Howard, NHA
Mar 10, 2017
I left long-term care in 2016. One day, I sat across a long conference room table and was awestruck by the decimation I observed before me.
Professional recruiters are job-seekers new BFF
By
Julie Osborne
Mar 10, 2017
Finding and getting a new job is the job of professional recruiters.