Studies of hospital admissions from U.S. nursing homes suggest that resident and family insistence on transfer accounts for as much as 15% to 18% of these admissions. It is understood few medical providers...
The song “Friend Like Me” has popped up pretty frequently on my favorite Pandora station lately, and that’s made me sad. It was sung in the movie “Aladdin” by Robin Williams,...
“That TSA agent made my day.” You don’t hear that sentence very often. On any list of unlikely utterances, it’s right up there with “Those Republicans and Democrats really...
Robert J. Molitor has joined a University of Wisconsin board.
The final result of years of research was announced on November 1 at LeadingAge 2015: CCRCs will be known as Life Plan Communities. This new terminology projects the image of today’s older adults,...
Recruiters are required to be very clear and honest about the requirements and benefits for the available position.
Americans love rewards. Perhaps nowhere else is the carrot-and-stick strategy put to more frequent or hopeful use than the United States. But 6,000 lucky long-term care providers learned how and why there...
Maybe a blog about killing your patients right after Halloween is an appropriate topic. After all, that would make a pretty scary movie, right? But this isn’t some scary movie. It’s true.
How do you convince some 50,000 plus college students, faculty and staff to get a flu shot? If you’re the university I attended, you hand out stickers with a catchy slogan and a cartoon cow on them.
