Lynn Hood to receive 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 12, 2024
Lynn Hood, a long-term care executive well-known for answering the call to act under emergency conditions and being a champion of employees, has been chosen as this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award...
‘Don’t panic — prepare’ experts urge in ‘new era’ of health data
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James M. Berklan
Feb 29, 2024
Long-term care operators who may think that more complex health data gathering will be important only at the end of this decade, or that it can somehow be evaded altogether, are in for a rude awakening.
Parkinson: It’s time for providers to consider special plans
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James M. Berklan
Jan 16, 2019
Low occupancy. Low profit margins. Impossibly low reimbursements. Pressure to risk share. Inaccurate staffing tabulations. One can forgive Mark Parkinson if he ever seems distracted. As the president and...
3 weeks to McKnight’s Forum and 5th Annual Women of Distinction banquet
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James M. Berklan
Apr 28, 2023
Tickets to the May 22 McKnight’s workplace forum and the affiliated annual Women of Distinction Awards banquet are entering their final sales phase.
Report: Resident falls top reason for lawsuits risks
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 01, 2014
Falls accounted for a slightly lower proportion of closed professional liability claims that insurer CNA most recently studied, but they still were far and away the top threat to providers’ legal...
Parkinson: Nursing home sector pinning hopes on ‘Medicaid adequacy’ rule
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James M. Berklan
Oct 11, 2022
After characterizing business conditions as “never worse,” the skilled nursing sector’s top advocate said stakeholders need more help from both the federal and state governments to forge a viable...
LeadingAge 2023 annual conference could be biggest yet
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 11, 2023
Organizers are gearing up for what they figure could be the group’s biggest annual conference yet, Nov. 5-8 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
Unions scowl, employers beam. Just what do employees need to know?
By
James M. Berklan
May 08, 2013
First of all, to all the pro-union and pro-management types: Thanks for reading. Too bad only one of you can be happy after Tuesday’s federal appeals court ruling that tossed a National Labor Relations...
Trump budget cuts HHS 18%
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 05, 2017
President Trump’s first proposed budget chops 18% from Department of Health and Human Services funding and adds millions of dollars to combat healthcare fraud for fiscal 2018.
CFO offers route to better employee retention, company success
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 31, 2018
When a long-term company needs to change the way its quality and financial fortunes are trending, improving worker recruiting and retention is at the core of the solution, attendees at the LeadingAge national...