My mother spent her last night as a boarder in an Emergency Department somewhere in America.
Facts, not anecdotes, must guide long-term care policy
By
Brendan Williams
Feb 14, 2020
An oft-repeated canard that bedevils advocates for facility-based care is the assertion, by an organization that peddles Medicare insurance products, that “90% of people don’t want to be in a nursing...
Every step you take: A personal PDPM family perspective
By
Renee Kinder
Feb 13, 2020
This week has been eye-opening. I shifted from policy enthusiast to affected family member.
LTC leaders gain remarkable insights from the Sleepover Project
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Feb 11, 2020
It’s rare for long-term care leaders to spend a night in their own facilities, despite the wealth of information they could glean about their enterprises from doing so. There is an answer for this.
To boost transparency, amend bills to require PBM disclosure data related to seniors residing in long-term...
By
Alan G. Rosenbloom
Feb 10, 2020
To better ensure consumers and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have access to drug pricing information relevant to seniors residing in long term care facilities, we believe the Senate...
Do you have a silo mentality in your residential facility?
By
Herb Hildebrandt, Ph.D, Hl.D.
Feb 07, 2020
A generalization: Most groups, such as seniors living in retirement communities, have within them social, professional territories. That is, there is an assumption that groups, clusters, committees, political...
Tempets in a typo
By
Gary Tetz
Feb 06, 2020
Sometimes a writer has to take a principled stand no matter how oxymoronic that might sound. That’s why today, without fear of reprisal, I want to talk about typos.
Protect your long-term care facility from novel coronavirus before it’s too late
By
Vernon Jeffery
Feb 03, 2020
Have you taken steps to protect your long-term care facility from the novel coronavirus? If not, there’s no time to waste. Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been sweeping across the globe since being...
New Year’s resolutions for a fraud-free 2020
By
Jeffrey D. Jeter
Jan 31, 2020
Now that the calendar has flipped to a new year, millions of Americans have made resolutions to better themselves in the year ahead. New Year’s resolutions are not a modern phenomenon and actually date...
And the Oscar goes to…
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Jan 28, 2020
Rather than stew about the overdressed, self-congratulators flaunting at the Academy Awards ceremony, I’ve decided to give out my own Oscars — to the loving, deserving stakeholders in the various...