About 20 seniors at Chestnut Knoll Residential Care and Memory Care are planning to rock some strangers’ lives, one lilac or Kelly green stone at a time.
Ask the Treatment Expert about … improve wound documentation
By
Rosalyn Jordan, RN, BSN, MSc, CWOCN, WCC
Jun 06, 2016
Information sharing is essential to promote quality wound care. Although there are no national, state or local regulations related to wound care documentation, individual skilled nursing facilities must...
Ask the Nursing Expert… about preventing burnout
By
Angel McGarrity-Davis, RN, CDONA, NHA
Sep 04, 2015
Our nursing home has been really short of nurses, so we’ve all been working a lot of overtime. How do we prevent burnout?
Meds not dispensed without valid scrips, PharMerica says
By
Ashley Carman
Oct 01, 2013
Long-term care pharmacy giant PharMerica dispensed controlled narcotics without valid prescriptions and charged Medicare, the federal government alleges in a False Claims Act lawsuit. The company “vigorously”...
Ask the care expert: What are some infection control techniques for touch-screen medical records?
By
Sherrie Dornberger
Nov 01, 2011
CDONA, FACDONA, President, NADONA
60 Seconds with… ACHCA Board Chairman Sara Sinclair
By
Haymarket Media
Jun 13, 2005
Q: What are some of your top goals as the new leader of the American College of Health Care Administrators?
A: I’m encouraging each member to get one new member this year. I also want to get true...
Ask the treatment expert: Why does the wound physician want to change an unstageable wound to a stage...
Nov 01, 2020
Why does the wound physician want to change an unstageable wound to a stage 3?
Hundreds of nursing home workers plan walkout in nationwide protest
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 14, 2020
Hundreds of nursing home workers in Michigan are joining what they call a nationwide walkout to protest systemic racism and police brutality in the United States.
Wouldn’t it be a better world
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Nov 25, 2019
What if we all lived by our mission and values? I mean truly did it.
Ask the Care Expert: How will PDPM impact care?
By
Sherrie Dornberger
May 01, 2019
Nursing care documentation has been influential but hasn’t driven payment to the degree it will October 1.