Emerging state approach to long-term care gives ‘criminal intent’ a whole new meaning
States are beginning to consider a bizarre new long-term care strategy that has many providers rightfully concerned.
Health IT not a panacea for what’s wrong in healthcare
If you listen to the lobbyists for medical device manufacturers, health information technology is the answer to our biggest healthcare troubles. America’s registered nurses have a different perspective.
Increasing staff at in-service trainings
For years, eldercare providers have been required to ensure that staff members attend in-service trainings to remain licensed to work at a community. And for equally as long a time, managers and supervisors...
A commonsense way to free up funds for long-term care
They say politics makes for strange bedfellows. It makes for stranger politicians.
3D-printed food — coming soon to a long-term care dining room near you
Those Germans. They’re even hungrier than caterpillars. After mastering the culinary artistry of Zwiebelkuchen, Schupfnudel, Maultaschen and Käsespätzle, which I’m not even going to bother...
Avoiding norovirus like the plague
Norovirus is the scourge of nursing homes, not to mention frequent travelers. The release of Center for Disease Control and Prevention data this week confirms what many of us see firsthand, which is “the...
Top 10 best practices for social media in LTC
Like it or not, social media is now seen as activity of daily living for your residents and employees. More than 55 million photos a day are uploaded to Instagram and shared.[1] If you thought Facebook...
The illuminated landscape: Unlocking the healing power of photography
For centuries, designers, artists, architects and city planners understood that pastoral landscape scenes could elicit rapid and significant recovery from stress. In modern times, this belief has been...
Taking a cue from Big Brother: A hospital tool for long-term care providers
Relationships between hospitals and nursing homes can be funny things. Working together, they can do great things. But “cooperation” and “outreach” are not operative words frequently...
Pay for performance, medical necessity and Jimmo
Why would anyone mention value-based reimbursement, medical necessity and the Jimmo lawsuit in the same sentence? I feel they are all related, but it will be difficult to find the perfect balancing act...
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