You may be aware that on Feb. 22, Houston-based Intuitive Machines landed a spacecraft on the moon, making history as the first commercial craft to reach the lunar surface and the first U.S. spacecraft...
New Jewish Home appoints Mundy and Abrams as nursing home administrators
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 15, 2020
The New Jewish Home, a comprehensive healthcare system serving older New Yorkers, has appointed new administrators at two of its two skilled nursing facilities. Sandra Mundy, a nursing home administrator...
Sorting out the antipsychotic quality measures
By
Steven Littlehale
Mar 05, 2013
While antipsychotic measurements can vary, providers must carefully and thoroughly examine all antipsychotic medication use in their facility.
Rethinking long-term care’s work week
By
John O'Connor
Aug 03, 2021
Workplace scheduling as we knew it will never again be the same. Could we be seeing a four-day work week in long-term care sometime soon?
Just where does the buck stop with nursing homes and COVID-19?
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 21, 2020
Should the federal government “own” the coronavirus pandemic national response?
The nursing home community is one team during the coronavirus pandemic
By
David Barmak, J.D.
Apr 29, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic tragically continues to claim the health and lives of our nursing home elders. As upsetting as that is, and without minimizing the pain and suffering our elders and their families...
Let’s talk about sex
By
Robin Dessel
Aug 07, 2013
Sexual expression should be sanctioned and rightly belongs in residential healthcare settings. Sexual rights should not be subject to change based upon age, place of residence, sexual preference or the...
The market’s mood? In a word, moody.
By
John O'Connor
Sep 01, 2023
When we launched the McKnight’s Mood of the Market surveys four years ago, the goal was to find out how long-term care providers truly felt about their daily roles.
A right of passage or a risk of passing?
Apr 05, 2016
When I die, I want to go like my grandmother, peacefully in her sleep … not like the three passengers screaming in the back seat of her Buick! (OK, old joke). But what isn’t a joke is elders...
Giving person-centered care the green light
By
Aug 11, 2015
I’m one of those people who see the numbers ticking down on a crosswalk signal as a challenge. Five seconds? No problem. Three? Let’s just say if you’ve ever been waiting at a stoplight...