Strategic partnerships provide essential resources for seniors
By
Stephen Proctor
Oct 11, 2013
Senior care providers dedicated to meeting the needs of this population must adjust to assure easy access to needed resources and services. One approach is the development of partnerships between senior...
Trail banter, long-term care style
By
Gary Tetz
Jun 02, 2022
For lots of good reasons, a long-term care facility hallway should not be the same as a hiking trail. Protruding rocks and exposed tree roots would create a fall hazard, and make med cart navigation...
Under pressure with pressure injuries
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Jan 24, 2019
Before you invest in the most expensive cushions and mattresses available for those at risk, find a provider that can help you with pressure mapping and find out exactly what you’re getting and maximize...
What is your plan to catch Bigfoot?
By
Neil Hefta
May 04, 2018
The shrinking workforce has created a “Bigfoot Phenomenon” in the recruitment process of top directors of nursing in the long-term care industry.
Simply too complicated
By
Gary Tetz
Feb 22, 2018
Every now and then, I wander innocently and foolishly into a complex long-term care topic that makes my brain hurt. This time, it was managed care.
Start walking the staffing walk
By
Abby Spence
Feb 28, 2024
The long-term care industry is up against many different fronts right now. One of the main “fronts” is the potential staffing mandate that is ever looming. It is a dark cloud of a waiting game....
Now that COVID is waning, time to focus on the things you ignored
By
Neville M. Bilimoria
Jun 28, 2023
Now that the Public Health Emergency has ended, and COVID-19 is starting to become less of a burden in your facility, now might be a good time to focus on protecting your liability.
Inventive languages
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Nov 08, 2022
My family tells me that when I was a very little girl, I apparently had a proclivity for creating my own language that only my older sister could interpret. It took some coaching but eventually I adapted...
Human-computer interaction
By
Adam Saalman
Jul 13, 2022
In my last post, I mentioned having worked on both sides of the fence as a full-time employee with a single organization and as a consultant where I went between many different client sites to implement...
Don’t look left: Finding long-term care lessons in traffic
By
Gary Tetz
Feb 24, 2022
If you’ve read many of my McKnight’s columns over the years, you know I love to draw long-term care lessons from traffic experiences.