Feeling under fire? No wonder
How do you know you have a room with three people feeling sorry for themselves in it? Find a room with two nursing home workers. Their persecution complex levels will add up.
The importance of marketing and PR for nurse leaders
If you are a nurse leader or other clinical staff member at a long-term and post-acute care community, marketing and public relations are probably not top of mind for you.
Dual sensory impairment can impair ADLs
One in six Americans over age 70 has impaired vision and one in four has impaired hearing. The prevalence of combined visual and hearing impairment more than doubles among those over age 80 when compared...
Harper joins Lancaster Pollard
Doug Harper has been hired as the managing director, agency finance, at Lancaster Pollard.
Pokémon Go is a catch for LTC
If you’ve read or watched the news at all in the past few weeks, or even just gone outside and seen groups of people huddled around their phones, you probably know about this Pokémon Go thing.
You can’t keep a good nurse down
Alice Graber started during World War II and kept at it until last month. Now, the retired nurse is going to volunteer at … well, you’re not going to believe it.
F-Tag in focus: F-431
In today’s environment, long-term care providers face growing regulatory demands designed to improve the quality of care
Collaborations create model for memory care
Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it.
A note from SNFs to hospitals: Stay away from Misfit Island
Hospitals need to toughen up. Their impending new five-star rating system isn’t going to be the end of the world (at least, not for most of them). But if the experience of skilled nursing homes is...
The Aedes mosquito and human hands — are they related?
Imagine you are on a train and the conversation around you is about the seven deadly summer diseases. You eavesdrop because you’re a bit scared you might be exposed to one of them.
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