New PointClickCare upgrades target cross-continuum care
By
Amy Novotney
Nov 07, 2023
The fall conference season is often used by vendors to highlight recent upgrades that make platforms and technology tools in general more supportive across the care continuum.
State News – November 2023
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 03, 2023
Indiana has recommended several companies to provide Medicaid managed care to seniors but by early October had yet to issue $15 billion in contracts.
How to do it… Taking the AI plunge
By
John Hall
Nov 03, 2023
“The vast majority of what you know to be true is about to change,” Paul Roetzer, founder and CEO of the Marketing AI Institute, recently said in a published interview. Workforce companies serving...
Open eyes and open ears to drink in LTC, life
By
Gary Tetz
Nov 03, 2023
With chaos engulfing me, I glide through the airport terminal in my own blissful little world. My earbuds firmly in noise cancellation mode, all I hear are the glorious chords of Rachmaninoff’s Piano...
Lest we forget, it’s hardly all bad
By
John O'Connor
Nov 03, 2023
Skilled care operators now find themselves on the bad business end of many a pointed finger.
Ongoing wound care attrition christened a national crisis
By
John Hall
Nov 02, 2023
The ongoing nursing shortage is also limiting the pool of wound care nurses.
Despite trickle of bad news, analysts still bullish on SNFs
By
John Hall
Nov 02, 2023
Taken as a snapshot in time, 2023 has had the early markings of a healthy rebound for most senior living sectors, including skilled nursing, emphasized by occupancy gains.
Lisa McCracken: Sense-making in senior living
By
Kimberly Hartley
Nov 02, 2023
Shop-talk is bound to come up in the McCracken household at the New Jersey shore. Longtime, long-term care experts Lisa and Jim owe their relationship to the senior living industry, after all.
Staffing rule finally hits
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 10, 2023
US nursing homes would have three years to provide a minimum of 3.0 hours of nursing care per day, at least 0.55 hours of that by a registered nurse and 2.45 hours by a nurse aide, under a first-ever federal...
60 Seconds with … Jasmine Travers, PhD, RN
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 10, 2023
You recently studied the impact of the COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, on nursing homes. What did you find?