AHCA’s Parkinson honors ‘real heroes’ in his own words
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 25, 2024
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News shares Mark Parkinson’s full, unscripted acceptance speech from the 2024 Pinnacle Awards.
‘Critical Access’ nursing homes could be game changer: Focused Post-Acute Partners’ Mark McKenzie
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 26, 2022
While struggling rural nursing homes must innovate to survive, their efforts would be bolstered by a federal program similar to one that provides additional funding and staff resources to challenged rural...
Care teams now at risk as MDS changes roll out
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 28, 2023
It’s been widely billed as the biggest change to the Minimum Data Set in more than a decade, and on Sunday, version 1.18.11 of the MDS 3.0 finally kicks in.
Nexion’s Fran Kirley: Thriving by using culture to recruit workers, oust agency
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 25, 2022
During the pandemic, Nexion Health saw its agency staff costs increase by 12 times its base, from $1 million annually in 2019 to about $12 million each in 2020 and 2021.
Some AIT candidates go without placements as turnover, vacancies persist in SNF leadership
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 03, 2023
Growing the next generation of nursing home leaders is proving increasingly difficult for some skilled nursing operators.
Providers tepidly embrace CMS plan to revoke ‘no longer needed’ vax mandate
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Kimberly Marselas
May 03, 2023
Skilled nursing providers on Tuesday cheered the federal government’s decision to revoke its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.
Nurse wanted nursing home victims to ‘slip’ away: charging documents
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Kimberly Marselas
May 26, 2023
A nurse with a spotty work history that includes allegations of “abuse” has been charged in the killings of two nursing home residents and the attempted murder of a third, the Pennsylvania attorney...
Direct care doesn’t hold nursing students’ interest: survey
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 31, 2023
Nearly 60% of today’s nursing students envision careers that take them away from direct patient care — even while they’re still in school, a new survey finds.
Prioritize ventilation over masking, ‘realistic’ epidemiologist advises long-term care providers
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 23, 2022
Staying away from groups when sick and improved ventilation — but not masking — are the way forward at this point in the pandemic, a noted epidemiologist and COVID-19 advisor told a nursing home group...
Pressing questions about rural telehealth access and investments put innovation in danger
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 22, 2024
Questions remain about how much providers will be able to rely on telehealth, remote monitoring and other technologies to come in the years ahead — and whether the government will make the needed legal,...