What the government gives, the government can take away: Why you should CARES
By
Steven Littlehale
Nov 15, 2020
“Don’t worry about it. Take the money. We’ll deal with the details later,” said no one ever — especially not the federal government.
Paul Revere rides again
By
Gary Tetz
Nov 12, 2020
Where is Paul Revere when we need him? It seems like he should be racing through every hamlet and long-term care facility in America shrieking, “The vaccine is coming! The vaccine is coming!”
Preparing for litigation after COVID-19
By
Rebecca A. Brommel
Andrew Brantingham
Nov 09, 2020
Long-term care facilities have been in the fight of their lives – and for the lives of their residents – since March. In addition to the usual regulatory requirements, facilities must deal with COVID-19...
Are smart healthcare facilities the wave of the future?
By
Joel Landau
Nov 06, 2020
Amid the horrors of the coronavirus pandemic, there was a hopeful glimpse of healthcare’s future. And it came from the very epicenter of the outbreak — Wuhan, China — where in the early days of March,...
Join a national network to fight COVID-19
By
Ruth Katz
David Gifford, M.D.
Nov 04, 2020
COVID-19 continues to put nursing home leaders and their staff through the wringer. Across the country, case rates in the general population are rising again. At the same time, the financial survival of...
Don’t let up this fall. A potential ‘twindemic’ awaits.
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Nov 02, 2020
The sun is shining, the sky is blue, the leaves are turning and the temperature is dropping. It’s another lovely fall day, but what does that mean for those of us in healthcare? October is when we...
Reimagining our nation’s older adult care system
By
Jeannee Parker Martin
Oct 30, 2020
No one could have predicted the challenges COVID-19 has brought to caregivers and the millions of older adults they serve. But the pandemic has exposed major and systemic issues in the older adult care...
A bear of very little brain
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 29, 2020
I can’t tell you the peace I feel from setting aside the unknowns of the election and the incomprehensible intricacies of delivering vaccines to long-term care facilities to consider our economic future.
Moving nursing homes forward: The future is now
By
Michael Wasserman
Oct 26, 2020
On March 11, I wrote about the COVID-19 storm rapidly approaching our nursing homes, and particularly the risk of nursing home staff transmitting the virus to residents. On March 15, I pointed out the...
Just below the surface: Depression in the elderly
By
Renee Kinder
Oct 22, 2020
We must dig deep, assess the unique coloring in any “heaviness” in our patients and understand what may be just below the surface.