Variation and growth in post-acute care spending has earned PAC a spot on hospital and health systems’ priority list for cost-saving opportunities. The success of new care delivery models — particularly...
Leadership in LTC: The diversity challenge
By
Mary Helen McSweeney-Feld
Mar 14, 2014
Having a diverse administrative workforce requires new ideas on the process of training administrators and encouraging organizations to provide those training opportunities.
COVID-19 & Flu: Considerations for the rehab team
By
Renee Kinder
Sep 10, 2020
Let’s face it: COVID-19 is here to stay for a while and as our summer season ends another season is on the way. Flu season.
Sr+ — Behavioral ABCs
By
Mark Pavlovich
Jul 08, 2020
I met BF Skinner when I was in grad school studying Applied Behavior Analysis.
And the Oscar goes to…
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Jan 28, 2020
Rather than stew about the overdressed, self-congratulators flaunting at the Academy Awards ceremony, I’ve decided to give out my own Oscars — to the loving, deserving stakeholders in the various...
Time for a new path forward for LTC
By
Katie Smith Sloan
Mar 13, 2019
We believe it is time to forge a new path forward: One of close collaboration between providers, policymakers, regulators and consumers that will better help providers to deliver the type of care older...
Leadership conversations
By
Julie Thorson
Jan 31, 2018
When you have team members committed to growing and learning more as leaders … leadership conversations have to happen. Here are some resources and ideas about them.
Collaborations create model for memory care
By
Andrew Sandler, Ph.D.
Jul 25, 2016
Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it.
‘Honest’ placebos help without side-effects, expense
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Jan 19, 2016
Placebos could be a better friend than you realize in the universal quest to reduce the number of medications that elderly patients receive. Don’t believe me? Read on. (It won’t hurt.)
Cultivating innovation
By
Sara McVey, MBA, NHA
Apr 13, 2015
Imagine our industry without innovations: We’d all be faxing each other about residents’ shuffleboard tournaments. Instead, whenever one senior living community shares an innovation they tried...