Operators have had a rough couple of years navigating through a pandemic and the costly staffing and workforce challenges that have followed. There are plenty of reasons for financial instability. There...
Mid-life racial discrimination in Black Americans tied to Alzheimer’s later on, study finds
By
Kristen Fischer
Apr 12, 2024
Racial discrimination during midlife is linked to Alzheimer’s disease, a new study finds.
We need transparent solutions rather than excuses
By
Michael Wasserman
Apr 10, 2024
Financial success and sustainability are at the heart of the fiduciary responsibility duty. Physician leaders must balance the potential conflict between their Hippocratic Oath and fiduciary responsibility. ...
McKnight’s Workforce Development Forum
May 16, 2024
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Also in the News for Monday, April 8, 2024
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 08, 2024
Long-term care industry needs to raise the bar for onboarding: survey … Lawmakers embrace bill prohibiting LTC owners or staff from becoming guardians of residents … Change Healthcare facing at least...
Behavior problems — not financial motivation — most often precede forced SNF discharges: OIG
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 04, 2024
Nursing homes most often initiated a discharge because a resident’s behavior endangered the resident or others in the facility, a rationale fully within their rights, a government watchdog reported Wednesday.
Many older patients in acute care have improper dosing of blood thinners, study finds
By
Donna Shryer
Apr 03, 2024
A first-of-its-kind exploratory study finds that over half of frail, older patients admitted to the hospital for acute illness and are on a blood thinner from the direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) class...
The underappreciated bartenders of long-term care
By
Gary Tetz
Mar 21, 2024
Before you think poorly of me, let me explain. I was in the bar that afternoon only because I had heard such great things about the nachos. Not buying it? How about this: I was conducting an in-person...
Paying the price of political ransomware
By
Brendan Williams
Mar 20, 2024
Perspective is too often lacking when it comes to our healthcare system. Policymakers will, for example, generalize from every alleged transgression by a nursing home provider and paint the entire...
‘Whistleblower’ owes landmark $1.1M to nursing home for groundless False Claims case
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 20, 2024
A judge has awarded a landmark $1.1 million in attorney fees to a nursing home targeted in a False Claims case found “frivolous” for its reliance on publicly available and false information.