Healthcare reform: No matter how much you may loathe it, there’s no way around how certain ideas, like pay for performance, aren’t going away.
Extendicare leaves Kentucky, blames need for tort reform
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 05, 2012
Citing the state’s lack of tort reform, a major nursing home chain has announced that it is leaving Kentucky.
For East Coast nursing homes, things are heating up
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 03, 2012
For all the complaining about Chicago winters (which you are only allowed to do if you are a native), what generally gets missed is how lovely the summers here are compared to my home state of Virginia.
This leader’s a team player
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 02, 2012
Convincing medical students to go into geriatrics is a tough sell, which Joseph Ouslander, M.D., knows better than anyone.
Refine quality to gain better image: leaders
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 06, 2012
Long-term care providers face negative perceptions and should focus on quality measurements to combat unfair portrayals, association executives said in May.
Survey expert gives insight on common deficiencies
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 06, 2012
A nursing home survey expert gave providers a tip sheet to the most common deficiencies — and how to avoid them — in the first McKnight’s Super Tuesday webcast of 2012.
Sabra on an upswing
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 05, 2012
Moody’s Investors Service upgraded Sabra Health Care REIT in mid-April after the long-term care landlord posting its second-best performance in the first quarter, with a total return of 38.8%.
Court approves another pact that siphons facility residents
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 05, 2012
In another strike against the traditional nursing home census base, a federal judge in Maine has approved a class-action lawsuit settlement that lets those with long-term disabilities live in their home...
Thursdays with Walter
By
Elizabeth Newman
May 29, 2012
Walter the goldendoodle is like Norm on the old TV show “Cheers.” When he walks into Alden North Shore Nursing and Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, everyone knows, and often calls, his...
A nudge toward budgeting
By
Elizabeth Newman
May 22, 2012
There is many a manager who has been told “work on the budget” and left to sink or swim. If that’s different in your facility — that is, if each nurse manager is giving a course in...