Training for the Super Bowl of employee appreciation all year long
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 18, 2024
CareRite Centers, operating 33 facilities in four states, is a standout when it comes to making teams feel a part of something bigger.
‘Hell yes!’ Why one nursing home company jumped to join the staffing mandate lawsuit
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 11, 2024
Months before the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed federal staffing minimums for nursing homes, the American Health Care Association said it would sue over the rule should it offer providers...
Breaking down staffing mandate possibilities with a Washington insider
May 28, 2024
In this episode, Melissa Schakowsky, director of government affairs at the Ambassadors Group, takes us on a tour of the possibilities, the paths through Congress and the factors that may ultimately influence...
What an incredible journey, man: After 38 years, ‘conductor’ Pomeranz still on the ultimate roll...
Apr 16, 2024
What started on a whim in the 1980s has come full circle for David V. Pomeranz, who once was a wheelchair transport assistant and on April 1 became the new president and CEO of RiverSpring Living in New...
Staffing, Medicaid policy force nursing homes to ‘self-limit’ access
Apr 09, 2024
One in four skilled nursing beds is offline in Pennsylvania, with providers tying reduced access directly to a lack of frontline staff and Medicaid payment shortfalls. But that’s no one-state issue,...
Banking on long-term care’s resilience and proceeding with optimism
Mar 18, 2024
Lisa McCracken has observed and strategized within the long-term care sector for more than two decades. Now, as the new director of research and analytics for the National Investment Center for Seniors...
Revolutionary times: ‘Blow up’ today’s nursing home model, plus NYC’s first CCRC
Mar 06, 2024
New York City is finally welcoming its first life plan community, and providers around the country have a lot to learn about the process to create it — and the eye-popping array of amenities and...
No ‘level playing field’ for rural nursing home: Diakonos Group’s Kimberly Green
Jan 30, 2024
After an “excruciating” experience closing a rural skilled nursing facility, Kimberly Green, chief operating officer for the Diakonos Group, is warning that more providers will face a cascade of similar...
Nursing homes not planning for value-based care are falling behind
Jan 09, 2024
Does every nursing home need a value-based care strategy today? The answer, says Brian Fuller, ATI Advisory’s new managing director of value-based care design and delivery, is “unequivocally...
‘In the shark’s cage’: Easing wage pressures and increased regulatory burden face LTC operators
Nov 14, 2023
Long-term care salary specialist Matt Leach, of Total Compensation Solutions, assures McKnight’s Executive Editor James M. Berklan in this podcast that even though regulatory burdens and pay transparency...