Resident handling programs can minimize worker injuries
By
Mary Gustafson
Sep 01, 2011
The growing disparity between the average American’s weight and safe lifting requirements presents a challenge for long-term care workers who perform heavy lifting. As a result, facilities with safe...
Grieving takes its course
By
Jill Gilbert
Jun 01, 2008
This month we continue our discussion with Joyce Ebmeier of Tabitha Health Care Services.
Profile: Mark McClellan – Washington wunderkind
By
Liza Berger
Mar 01, 2010
Mark McClellan, Director and Fellow, Brookings Institution
Design Decisions: The Pavilion at Queens
By
John Andrews
May 06, 2017
The Pavilion at Queens installs a unique rehab feature for post-surgical and stroke patients — an actual home to help them re-learn routines
How to do it… Documenting bathing info
By
John Hall
Sep 05, 2018
Although it technically is considered custodial care and not directly paid by Medicare, bathing is a critical part of the overall care long-term care residents receive and expect.
Reader poll: What is most memorable from your first day at your current job?
May 08, 2018
“I was a newbie on the job. I worked to develop rapport with the residents and staff. I always had wanted to work with Wesley Woods. I would ride past it and hope. It has changed so drastically over...
Caregiving full circle
By
Renee Kinder
Jul 19, 2018
The cancer was extensive and had spread fast. As a result of this and after a multitude of hospital stays, he ended up in a skilled nursing facility in a small town in Kentucky.
How to do it … Skin/wound care
By
Haymarket Media
Jun 12, 2006
When it comes to the best ways to practice good skin and wound care, experts repeatedly return to a common theme, independent of one another: Practice the basics. Keep a simple routine that thrives on...
OIG criticizes states for approving nursing homes’ plans of correction without checking them
By
Marty Stempniak
Feb 12, 2019
The Office of the Inspector General says state agencies aren’t doing enough to make sure that nursing homes are correcting deficiencies.
Survey lists nation’s best, worst states for nursing home care
By
Marty Stempniak
Feb 04, 2019
A new analysis of Medicare data ranks the nation’s best states for nursing home care, according to organizers, and the last one to the party appears to have won the race.