Siryj to revamp memory care at Oak Trace
Luba Siryj has been hired at Oak Trace in Downers Grove as the new memory care manager. Her responsibilities will include creating the community’s first specialized dementia program.
Goodwin starts at LeadingAge
Tommy Goodwin has become the director of member advocacy for LeadingAge. The new position will include responding to proposed legislation and advancing the industry group’s policy priorities.
Dodge oversees Arbors of Bedford
Lori S. Dodge is the new executive director at The Arbors of Bedford in southern New Hampshire.
In dementia’s crosshairs, women speak out
Alzheimer’s disease does not discriminate. Or so we’ve been repeatedly told — for example, when “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher died, almost exactly one year ago. But a report out...
LTC must pursue collaboration to reduce readmissions
Acute and post-acute providers are increasingly uniting around a shared goal – to lower hospital readmission rates for elderly and other vulnerable patients. Many caregivers and payers agree that...
Reversal of fortune revitalizes LTC funding source
For many long-term care operators, shrinking demand is not likely be a problem in the decades ahead. After all, about 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day, and the pace is just heating up. But there can...
What providers can do to counteract negative advertising
Plaintiffs’ lawyers use negative advertising for the same reason political consultants do — because it works. And although modern political campaigns seem never-ending, mercifully, there is a defined...
Jasmon moves to The LaSalle Group
Joseph E. Jasmon has been named The LaSalle Group’s first chief operating officer.
Life after consolidation: How LTC leaders can assimilate
Consolidation, a fact of life in today’s healthcare industry, is prevalent in the long-term care arena as well. Locally and regionally, nursing homes, assisted-living facilities and home- and community-based...
Change the nursing home survey process
If LeadingAge’s latest strategy works as hoped, it would mean high-performing nursing homes wouldn’t have the fire of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services dragon breathing down their...
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