Just about a month ago, I opened a little contest, looking for the best punchline to a joke involving nursing home personnel. We have a winner.
The Editor’s Desk: A proud moment for the nation’s nursing homes
By
James M. Berklan
May 01, 2010
On April 20, top management from the Covenant Care nursing facility were in Washington to become the first healthcare provider of any type to win the Better Business Bureau International Torch Award for...
CCRC line workers receive good news in new salary and benefits survey
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 11, 2019
An annual CCRC salary and benefits survey was good news for lower-level workers, and turnover rates overall.
BREAKING: Feds post early release of new RAI manual for PDPM training
By
James M. Berklan
May 21, 2019
Federal regulators have released a draft version of anxiously awaited RAI training guidance for the Patient-Driven Payment Model.
From the top: Status quo won’t suffice anymore
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 09, 2018
When the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services addressed a gathering of nursing home owners and operators in early June in Washington, it might not have been the HHS Secretary they had...
It’s time you take care of you, and here is the place
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 08, 2018
Some people sit down at the beginning of each year and make relatively ambitious goals.
Providers just have to look for their bright spots
By
James M. Berklan
May 04, 2016
Long-term care operators have plenty of reasons to recoil and lick their wounds over the course of a year. But sometimes they need to seek the light and resist the “woe is us” mentality.
Nurses again rated tops, but you’d hardly know it
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 03, 2012
Sometimes long-term care nurses feel like step-sisters to their acute-care counterparts. Face it: Hospital nurses usually get the glory.
CMS leader mum on staffing mandate, delivers ‘back to basics’ message
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 08, 2023
A CMS leader steered clear of staffing mandate talk but highlighted a nursing home workforce campaign, renewed survey priorities, discharge processes and much more Tuesday.
It’s time to tune in to National Skilled Nursing Care Week
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 15, 2024
Preparations to observe National Skilled Nursing Care Week are fully underway for the May 12-18 observance. The theme is “Radiant Memories — A Tribute to the Golden Age of Radio.”