Could volunteering during retirement years be the proverbial “Fountain of Youth”? Several recent studies demonstrate that not only does volunteering during our later years improve health –...
Erickson Living renovates community
Mar 22, 2017
Erickson Living has started construction on Dogwood Commons, an assisted living and memory care building as part of a multi-phase plan to expand and renovate.
Kindred to add 500 jobs in KY
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 01, 2015
Kindred Healthcare will expand its headquarters and add about 500 jobs, the company announced in December.
Mather Lifeways named Gold Winner in McKnight’s Tech Awards
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 11, 2017
Mather Lifeways has returned to the throne in the McKnight’s Tech Awards competition, winning Gold once again, this time in the High Tech/High Touch category.
F-Tag in focus: F-431
By
Sonja Quale, Pharm.D.
Jul 25, 2016
In today’s environment, long-term care providers face growing regulatory demands designed to improve the quality of care
The data is in! More trends from CMS ResDAC
By
Renee Kinder
Sep 09, 2021
All data lovers you are in luck! Another quarter of data is in, courtesy of the CMS Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC). We have all watched trends since the initiation of the Patient Driven Payment...
Person-centered care, Chopped style
By
May 10, 2016
If there was such thing as an armchair quarterback for the Food Network show Chopped, it’d be me. My friends and I have logged an almost embarrassing amount of time watching it (eight hours on one...
Pulling back the curtain on these showstoppers
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 09, 2021
You want more long-term care good news? Here’s a guaranteed two scoops a day, starting last Monday and stretching into early August.
Playing it forward
By
Gary Tetz
Nov 01, 2013
It wasn’t expected. He just up and died. One day he was happily walking the Earth with the rest of us, the next he was gone. I barely knew him and don’t know the back-story, just that it happened...
Coronavirus sheds light on nursing home underfunding
By
Brendan Williams
Mar 09, 2020
Why should it take the COVID-19 outbreak for policymakers to pay attention to nursing homes? Last year in the state of Washington, when Medicaid underfunding forced the closure of Keiro Northwest — a...