Immigration reform won’t solve long-term care’s fundamental staffing challenge
By
John O'Connor
Apr 05, 2013
Long-term care operators are understandably giddy about the sudden prospect of immigration reform. But they might want to curb their enthusiasm.
Physiatrists: Optimizing and expediting PAC
By
Lauren Evans
Aug 10, 2017
With Medicare essentially stamping “declined” on more and more attempts to discharge post-acute patients to inpatient rehab facility care, skilled nursing facilities have become the preferred...
GPOs help LTC facilities navigate rising costs
Dec 16, 2015
Healthcare group purchasing organizations are on the front lines of helping their long-term care facility partners confront these new challenges.
Culture shift starts with employee investment
By
Teresa Buchman, RN
Jan 15, 2015
Providing the highest quality care to our geriatric long-term care residents and short-term stay rehabilitation patients has been a major focus and investment throughout our organization. Our goal, from...
Tomorrow’s nursing homes must integrate palliative care
Jan 09, 2015
Palliative care, a form of patient-centered care focused on quality of life for the seriously ill, should be the standard of practice for all elderly patients with complex illness in nursing homes.
Grab your Sharpie — LTC’s yearbook is here
By
Sep 01, 2015
A new report is out and it is a veritable time capsule of trends driving long-term care. Now in its 30th year, CliftonLarsonAllen’s Skilled Nursing Facility Cost Comparison Report came about when...
Leadership skills: Know yourself, know your employees, know your job
By
Cyndi Taplin
Sep 06, 2017
In the simplest sense, a successful leader is one that gets other people to do things, to do those things well, and to enjoy doing them.
Short-handed or short-sighted?
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Feb 15, 2017
When we communicate that we are having staffing issues, whether or not that communication is correct, we are telling the residents and their families that we can’t do our jobs.
SNF survival in an aging society
Jul 24, 2017
With the prevalence of multiple chronic conditions rising to three in four of those aged 65 and older, we face a ballooning number of people within the largest category of total Medicare spend –...
The unintended impact of Obamacare on SNFs
By
Eduardo Gonzalez
Dec 11, 2013
The Affordable Care Act, commonly known as, “ObamaCare,” is well understood to be in place primarily to assist Americans in need of healthcare insurance. It might be safe to assume then, that...