Mason joins Nurse Rosie
Scott Mason joined Nurse Rosie Products on Nov. 1, serving as divisional sales manager for the South. He will oversee Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Five-Star is anything but frozen
The day after Thanksgiving, CMS further defined its intensions with the Five-Star Quality Rating System; more specifically how the new survey process and derivative data will be used in its calculation...
Price-Rico moves to EarlySense
Karissa Price-Rico, Ph.D., is the new chief operating officer at EarlySense.
How can leaders engage employees? Lessons from “Field of Dreams”
Do you remember the movie Field of Dreams? I loved that movie! It had charm, mystery, sentimentality, and a real feel-good ending.
A MRSA vaccine may be on the horizon
If a MRSA vaccine could be developed for adults, it could potentially save nursing homes a lot of money, not to mention reset some of our infection control protocols.
When will we ever get good press?
You know, a lot of great stuff happens in the long-term and post-acute care setting. But nooooooo, no one ever wants to talk about the good stuff. One bad apple and the mainstream press go wild and we...
Palliative care improves outcomes for those with COPD
Almost 15.7 million Americans are diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a chronic respiratory illness with multiple disabling symptoms that impact quality of life.
Coordinated care: Recommendations to improve quality
Despite all of us having heard at least one story of good medicine gone wrong, coordinating care among skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and home- and community-based services (HCBS) can be a win-win situation.
A no-brainer plan for Medicare and Medicaid
But for those of you who think outrageous political trickery is dead, please let me point you in the direction of Capitol Hill. For we appear to be in the midst of one of the better con jobs to come along...
4 reasons to consider horticulture therapy as an alternative treatment
Growing and arranging flowers and cultivating greens allows them to practice real tasks that are used in everyday life.
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