Feeling stressed out as a long-term care leader? Guess who has it worse
Being a leader in the long-term care field is no panacea these days. Rank may have privilege, but it also brings with it a wide range of headache-inducing responsibilities.
Investing in distraction
I’m concerned that some nursing home administrators don’t seem to have enough to do. You would think that with survey and census and deer crashing through windows, they’d be able to keep...
Laboratory as a partner in reducing hospital readmission rates
Readmissions are a major problem in U.S. healthcare. LTC facilities are no longer lone providers in the health of a patient, but rather are a partner in the continuum of care from the initial admission...
Mostly negative media coverage of nursing homes? Maybe, and here’s why
At first it looked like just another round of whining about the media. Nothing gets more tedious than long-term care providers making off-base comments about their portrayal in the popular press.
“Improve”-ing Medicare
Under a proposed settlement, a nationwide class of beneficiaries will be certified, numerous parts of the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual will be rewritten, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
Caregiving in California
For all of the holiday joy in many of our lives, if there’s a time of year people feel burned out, it’s probably about now.
When tragedy moves us
I don’t believe there is one person who can hear about the tragedy at Sandy Hook and not be moved. I think many people are moved to a “call for action” in some way.
Fiscal cliff notes: Why long-term care operators should take a lesson from Dr. Seuss
If you are like most long-term care professionals, you are likely watching the ongoing fiscal cliff standoff with a mixture of fear and disgust.
C3: The Company-Consumer Convergence
After spending last week in Washington, DC for the mHealth Summit, I was fully immersed in all the expected catch-phrases: engagement, education, integration, and mobility.
Invisible wounds: The psychosocial complications of brain injury
Many people think that physical deficits following an acquired brain injury (ABI) are the most devastating to the patient and family.
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