Whistleblowers add to nursing home COVID relief burdens
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 31, 2022
A $105 million federal lawsuit filed last week — one possibly on its way to a quick dismissal — shows the growing threats nursing home operators face in accounting for their right to collect and spend...
We’ve built it, but help isn’t coming fast enough
By
Brendan Williams
Mar 30, 2022
In the movie “Field of Dreams,” Karin Kinsella assures her father, Ray, that “people will come” to his farm’s baseball field as he faces foreclosure. Those of us who are long-term care advocates...
Skilled care, mental health focus needed to decrease hospitalizations
By
Gayle Morris
Jan 11, 2021
Preventing hospitalizations is as much a sign of good health in older adults as it is a way to maintain it. The burden of infection control, preventing skin breakdown, pneumonia — and the myriad other...
Robots running senior care? Not exactly — yet
By
Neville M. Bilimoria
Apr 17, 2024
With all the problems long-term care is grappling with and focusing on, sometimes it is harder to see even bigger problems down the road. Right now, senior care facilities are grappling with staffing shortages...
Wine on a dog
By
Gary Tetz
Mar 23, 2023
You work in a difficult profession — long-term care. We all know that. I’m not even going to list the myriad challenges again, for fear of manifesting them into permanence. And yet, if your existence...
When the world spun out of control, they stepped up for residents
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 14, 2021
The heroes were everywhere late Friday in Arkansas and Kentucky, as savage tornadoes bore down directly on at least four nursing homes. As McKnight’s shared yesterday, one of the storm system’s most...
Using machine learning to improve clinical intervention
By
Mike Logan
Feb 14, 2024
How does one get a win in this current era of skilled nursing? Trust machine learning technology to improve clinical interventions and outcomes. Paris Girginis, VP of Innovation and Reimbursement for Mission...
MDS data may hasten timely evacuations
By
Anna Fisher, Ph.D.
Sharon Metcalf, Ph.D.
Aug 06, 2015
It’s no surprise that natural disasters and man-caused emergencies disproportionately affect older adults.
New state staffing mandate the last straw for 137-year-old rural nursing home
By
Josh Henreckson
Nov 17, 2023
After providing care in three different centuries, Lutheran Home and Rehabilitation Center is closing its doors due to regulatory and funding pressures.
Compassion fatigue – the struggle is real
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jul 27, 2021
Not getting a vaccine isn’t just affecting you. It’s why we have this variant, and it’s why we all have to keep dealing with this. And it’s why nurses are burning out and getting compassion...