Lifespace chooses Bentley
Sloan Bentley is the new president and CEO at Lifespace Communities in Des Moines, IA.
Schuna assumes new role at Pathway Health
Peter B. Schuna has expanded his role at Pathway Health, from being the chief operating officer to being COO and president.
5 reasons for rehab potential
How many clinicians (physical, occupational, and speech therapy) can honestly say that they have achieved full independence with 100% of every patient they have ever worked with? Unfortunately, I definitely...
The 12 traits of great nursing home administrators … and school principals
Social media often is credited with providing a stream of up-to-the-minute news, the latest developments breaking over Twitter or Facebook, and spreading virally in no time flat. But I’ve found that...
Delirium can hurt survey results
Delirium can be deadly if not diagnosed and treated. If that should occur, we all know that an Immediate Jeopardy citation is just around the corner. Don’t let that happen to you and your residents.
Identifying, selecting and installing EHR systems
The successful deployment of an EHR is too hard and too important to be “part” of someone’s job. An organization must make the commitment to having full-time staff leading the implementation...
Federal regulators say they will back off nursing homes — at least for now
If you’ve been involved in the long-term care field for any length of time, you should be quite familiar with how the government typically deals with bad news about nursing home care.
The Greatest Generation? These days, they’re more like the Forgotten Generation
It’s all but impossible to read “The Greatest Generation” without being impressed by the people now residing in senior living settings. As Author Tom Brokaw points out, these folks dealt...
Reducing depression through person-centered care
Culture change, the Eden Alternative, whatever you call it, things are moving in that direction. In my experience, the nursing home I worked in that was most attentive to the psychosocial needs of the...
Budgeting for hand hygiene
One of my former colleagues, who had moved to the healthcare sector from television, shared with me the story of how she began her new job and was told, “Oh, yeah, you can figure out the budget,...
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