For happy residents, don’t go the extra mile
I have a welcome message to share with long-term care professionals: You should relax. Don’t worry about going above and beyond for your residents and their families, because chances are, they’re...
Creating buy-in for Triple Aim
Before you can implement policies to help achieve the triple aim, you’re going to need the all-important buy-in from staff. First, let’s look at the triple aim itself and how it benefits consumers.
Close the infection loop to reduce outbreak risk
The readmission scores of nursing homes will be posted to the Nursing Home Compare website beginning in 2017, and the VBP program will begin Oct. 1, 2018. For the first time, facilities will not just face...
Sanchez joins Pendulum LLC
John Sanchez has joined Pendulum LLC as its Vice President Compliance – Risk Management. He begins June 1.
Atwell promoted at Erickson
Jason Atwell has been promoted to senior director of sales at Wind Crest retirement community in Highlands Ranch, CO. Wind Crest is an Erickson Living community.
Why are the ‘keepers’ constantly leaving? Thought you’d never ask
Whether you manage a caregiving team or run the company, you are probably dealing with three challenges more than you’d like to admit.
New wrinkles for population experts — and providers — to consider
It’s hardly breaking news that we live in an aging nation. But a look inside the latest round of numbers might give providers more reason to feel optimistic about remaining solvent once the age wave...
Corporate wide challenge spurs on LTC residents
For the past month, residents of Monarch Landing were walking, running or swimming an average of 44 miles each day, as they joined other seniors across the U.S. in Project 1,310. The title reflects the...
Coordinated care programs: A lifeline for patients and your facility
If you serve elderly populations in a long-term care or nursing facility, you have my respect — for the compassion you bring to work each day and the challenges you must face.
Amazing Grace Superstar: The great question of sacred or show-tune music
Nothing is clear these days — in long-term care or life. Everything’s brutally ambiguous. We’re living an endless good-news, bad-news life loop, where all the things we think are good for...
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