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.
Hacking goes to new and deadly limits
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jun 02, 2015
Everyone with a pulse is aware of hacking vulnerability. From insurance companies to major big box stores and even banks, we’d have to be dead if we didn’t realize how unsafe our secure information...
Helpful advice you might actually remember
By
John O'Connor
Dec 04, 2023
There was a lot of real wisdom for long-term care operators being shared during the fall shows. The advice was not only overwhelmingly accurate, but also remarkably relevant and beneficial.
It’s not news until they decide it is
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 11, 2022
It may be news to some, but this is at least one way nursing homes are way ahead of their acute-care big brothers.
Think before you write
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jan 21, 2020
I have to ask: Does anyone read what they write before they sign off and lock their documentation anymore?
Skilled nursing gets its turn in the spotlight
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 20, 2019
For anyone doubting the viability or need to follow the skilled nursing market, the proof is before us this week.
We’re ugly, and our mothers dress us funny?
By
John O'Connor
Oct 01, 2018
the revelation won’t do much to convince the dark suits that skilled care is the best place to put their money.
Providers rewarded for sticking with it
By
James M. Berklan
May 02, 2018
One could excuse long-term care providers if they’re walking around looking over their shoulders right now. I can personally identify with that.
Finding the passion in long-term care
By
Alyssa Salela
Aug 11, 2017
I observed and wrote a lot about the long-term care industry this summer, but one thing was consistent through all of it: Long-term care providers are passionate.
Senior sex — the lethal irony
By
Gary Tetz
Sep 08, 2016
Of all the forces in the universe, I fear irony the most. It’s lethal, and is eventually going to find and destroy me.