Administrators: ‘Do not let this experience go to waste’
By
Bill McGinley
Jun 09, 2020
To Nursing Home And Post-Acute Administrators, I will not even pretend to say that I know what you are going through. I am no longer on the front line. My NHA license no longer hangs on the...
Re-envisioning long-term care: A psychologist’s perspective
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Jun 02, 2020
In the mental health world, we encourage people to try to learn and grow from tragedy. I hope we in the long-term care world can do the same with the current pandemic conditions.
COVID-19 provides opportunity to improve nursing home care
By
John Hale
Terri Hale
Jun 01, 2020
COVID-19 has placed a spotlight on the nursing home industry and the challenges that nursing home owners, operators, administrators and other top managers face in keeping residents safe and well. They’ve...
Complaints of the pandemic
By
Jean Wendland Porter
May 29, 2020
We work in long-term care and we have COVID-19 patients. This is not news. Everyone who’s reading this can say the same. How are we handling it? We are all different. It’s also not news that we don’t...
The incredible shrinking brain
By
Gary Tetz
May 28, 2020
For those of you seeking a different coping path through this pandemic, might I suggest walking, gardening, swimming or dancing. I say this because a new preliminary study suggests that people who do those...
Essential experts
By
Julie Thorson
May 27, 2020
My leadership advice is to go back to the basics: communicate, include, communicate, include, communicate, include — over and over again.
The case for COVID-19 nursing homes
By
Raj Mahajan, M.D.
May 13, 2020
As the month of May opened, the Navy’s hospital ship “Comfort” departed Manhattan, having housed fewer than 200 patients over 3 ½ weeks, and the state of New York announced plans to...
Sometimes, you just have to pivot
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
May 12, 2020
Have you ever watched a basketball game? These lithe athletes are running down the court going in one direction and then BAM! They stop, plant a foot, pivot and go in another direction.
Are you read to take one for the grandkids?
By
Larry Minnix
May 08, 2020
if we open up our country and “let the virus be the virus,” I suggest a program that designates three basic classes of Americans.
To Seema: Let’s work together
By
Tamar Abell
May 08, 2020
Dear Seema Verma, Let me start out by saying, we, in the long-term care community, understand what a difficult job you have been tasked with. This unprecedented event has devastated our elderly, specifically...