The full impact of PDPM on therapists remains unknown
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 11, 2019
Immediate fallout from the start of the Patient Driven Payment Model led therapy advocates to complain to federal authorities about layoffs and other adverse effects. But stakeholders on all sides agreed...
Meet Tammy Retalic, Hall of Honor inductee
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 10, 2020
If someone could bottle whatever makes Tammy Retalic go, a few natural energy companies could find themselves expendable.
Here’s the naked truth about the coronavirus
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 01, 2020
Although the pleas have been sincere, long-term care providers have not gotten all the federal help they have desired for obtaining personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Clarity on how providers fit into the rehospitalization picture
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 24, 2013
If you might have had the notion that anxious long-term care providers have been taking the hubbub over rehospitalization rates a bit too seriously, a newly posted study shouts otherwise.
Judge slaps nationwide freeze on healthcare worker COVID vax mandate
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 01, 2021
A Louisiana federal judge on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration’s mandate that says all healthcare workers involved in the Medicare or Medicaid programs must be...
On this Rock a mandatory vaccine policy teeters
By
James M. Berklan
May 21, 2021
Many eyes of the long-term care world are focused on an unexpected place this week. It rests just north of the so-called “Cheddar Curtain.”
A thought: Maybe these are the good ol’ days
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 01, 2021
Dad was wise but never too pushy with the advice. I think he realized that’s how it gets better traction. Maybe that’s why what he said is still so memorable today.
When opportunity knocks, LTC pros answer
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 17, 2016
Say what you want about long-term care professionals because I’ve just about heard it all. They work too hard, they whine too much, they work for too little, they should be watched closer, and so...
Successful new ancillary service for long-term care operators? No, a bad trick
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 01, 2013
It is no secret that long-term care operators and other senior care providers love a good, money-making ancillary service to take care of their residents and firm up the bottom line. That’s one reason...
PETA definitely barking up the wrong tree
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 25, 2008
Some people, and their groups, are better at furthering the art of tactless solicitation than others. For the latest case of hoof-in-mouth disease, we only have to look to our friends at People for the...