It’s time to screw up that courage and take the plunge
I’ll never forget my first encounter with the high diving board at Sherman Park pool.
May 2014 Wound Care/Infection Control Buyer’s Guide
May 2014 Wound Care Buyer’s Guide
An overtime fix that seemed to work for everyone – except the feds
It’s a troubling staffing dynamic that regularly plays out at many long-term care facilities: Low-wage employees are practically begging for the opportunity to work extra hours. And the additional...
In the wake of a nursing home double-homicide: How to meet mental health needs and prevent violence
News of the recent double-homicide in a Houston nursing home arrived the morning I was to speak to a group gathered to address the needs of younger residents in long-term care. It didn’t escape anyone...
Instilling a love of nursing at an early age
One of the most rewarding parts of talking to employees currently working in healthcare is hearing how many of them come from families where the parents were administrators, physicians, nurses or aides....
Beyond ‘Busy’: Meaning making and engagement in therapeutic activities
Finding a way to engage in the world, make connections, and feel that we are contributing meaningfully is a key function in life for all of us.
Guided by our North Star: Re-starting a company
Last year, our company experienced a major transition that allowed us the opportunity to recalibrate. As Assisted Living Concepts, a 32-year pioneer in the assisted living industry, we embraced this opportunity...
Early to bed, early to rise … makes us better in ethicists’ eyes
Ever since I used to wake up early as a young child and turn on the morning farm report on TV, my still-sleeping parents knew they had an early riser. An active morning person, if you will. They can be...
MHA adds Siciliano
Joe Siciliano has joined Managed Health Care Associates in New Jersey as the company’s Vice President of Business Products and Services.
Sentenced to a nursing home
Here’s an innovative new way, and maybe the only one you haven’t already tried, to make sure more people visit your lonely nursing home residents. Sentence them to do it.
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