Healthcare flare-up on campaign trail
Things are heating up on the campaign trail, and I guess we can be grateful that healthcare is emerging as a new source of political offensives. On Saturday, Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama (IL)...
Things are heating up on the campaign trail, and I guess we can be grateful that healthcare is emerging as a new source of political offensives. On Saturday, Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama (IL)...
Saturday marks the conclusion of National Nursing Home Week – and providers might be breathing a sigh of relief that it is almost over. A week that is supposed to be celebratory was marred this year...
Last Friday, I wrote about a new quality committee formed by HCR ManorCare. I immediately received some negative feedback about the company’s move. The Service Employees International Union was quick...
Two privately held nursing home chains went public this week with smart quality and resident care initiatives. The moves are worth touting – particularly in light of the scrutiny and bad press that have...
You might have noticed that several nursing home stocks received a boost last Friday off of the latest Medicare regulatory news. While that might be good for the companies’ shareholders, it doesn’t...
It’s hard to find pure “feel-good” stories nowadays. Really hard. Maybe that’s why the latest brainstorm from Rick Matros is so, well, charming. Matros, of course, is the hip 50-something who likes...
Who said long-term care workers can’t have a little fun? We’re approaching the end of April, but it’s still not too late to get in on National Humor Month, an event founded in 1976 by humorist Larry...
Baby boomers are all over the media today so it’s no surprise they’ve found a place on the Internet too. Now they and seniors have one more site to call their own. Retirement Living TV, which is affiliated...
When it comes to growing old, we might want to think our worldview. The reason is Edna Parker, the oldest person in the world. Parker, who turned 115 at the Heritage House Convalescent Center in Indiana...
Washington is working for long-term care for a change, or so it seems. This week, by a vote of 46-0, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed a bill that would delay the onset of seven Medicaid regulations...