In the first two articles of this series, the CMS Quality Strategy Goals were discussed. While those quality and strategic goals are audacious, the other half of the plan is the Mount Everest of Healthcare....
Damgaard elected to new board
Nov 01, 2016
John Damgaard has been elected president of the board of directors for the National Association for the Support of Long Term Care.
The right prescription?
By
John O'Connor
Nov 02, 2018
If you want to know what skilled care will look like in five years, consider what hospitals look like today. The first time I heard that adage was in 1990. These days, it rings truer than ever. To be sure,...
A lesson in long-term care management
By
John O'Connor
Oct 05, 2020
If you are an administrator who is about to take a job, you do have some leverage. And you might want to do what a certain incredibly successful football coach did.
Dementia or just new batteries needed?
By
Shelly Mesure, MS, OTR/L
Aug 26, 2014
Age-related changes are a natural part of everyone’s existence. We can all expect to get wrinkles, gray hair, and decreases in our vision and hearing, among many other delightful changes. However,...
The nursing home industry is forced to play defense, yet again
By
John O'Connor
Jun 10, 2019
Here we go again. The long-term care sector just experienced yet another terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.
You go, girls! A year of nakedness
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Sep 06, 2012
If you think you’ve seen it all, you haven’t. That’s because they didn’t bare all, just almost all. This is awesome. A dozen women in their seventies and eighties decided to raise...
Steve Landers to be next Hebrew Senior Life CEO
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 04, 2023
Steve Landers, MD, will be the next CEO and president of Hebrew SeniorLife, a Harvard Medical School-affiliated, integrated system of healthcare, senior living and research, the organization announced...
‘The Great Perhaps’ in LTC
By
Tara Roberts
Jul 18, 2014
In post-acute care, particularly the SNF future, it can be “Great” but there are so many “Perhaps” that the definition of what “Great” is going to be is unclear.
The power of words
By
Shelly Mesure, MS, OTR/L
Mar 25, 2014
“The pen is mightier than the sword” is an age-old adage that implies that the power of communication — in this case, written communication — is more powerful than a physical weapon. Do...