Nebraska nursing home brings color to National Skilled Nursing Care Week
By
Foster Stubbs
May 16, 2023
National Skilled Nursing Care Week kicked off on Mother’s Day, beginning a series of celebrations throughout the week, from coast to coast. At Wakefield Health Care Center in Wakefield, NE, they’ve...
The ANSI standards controversy deserves your attention
By
Neville M. Bilimoria
Dec 16, 2019
Skilled nursing providers will want to stay attentive, so they don’t find themselves in the same kind of controversy their assisted-living counterparts now are experiencing.
Way beyond sprucing up
By
John Andrews
Nov 14, 2019
EdenHill in New Braunfels, TX, has a diverse mix of populations to care for within its 216 units and 20-acre campus. With roots in the 1950s, the community, however, is now entrenched in the 21st century....
Understand the resident to understand the behavior: Part 2
By
Richard Juman, PsyD
Jan 08, 2018
I am frequently asked to consult about “inappropriate” behavior in skilled nursing facilities. The question is usually something like: “We have a resident who is doing ‘X behavior’—...
Celebrate Psychology Day on May 27
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
May 19, 2020
While it would be wonderful to have a systemwide honoring of psychology, psychologists and mental health, even small gestures of acknowledgement can go a long way toward emotional repair, in these pandemic-stressed...
LTC operator adds genetic testing program to improve care for residents with complex needs
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 31, 2022
Frontier Management Group has partnered with a pharmacogenetics provider to help fine-tune medication management in an increasingly frail resident population, the company says.
Pandemic crisis ‘far from over’ in senior living, Argentum tells feds
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 25, 2022
While the nation turns the page on the crisis stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, Argentum is asking the Biden administration to redouble its efforts to help vulnerable older adults and their frontline caregivers.
Meet Jaime Brady, Rising Star honoree
By
Chloe Konrad
Jul 23, 2021
Jaime Brady possesses the rare ability to look back on her childhood and know she is where she is meant to be.
Nominations open for 3rd annual McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards
Dec 02, 2020
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News and McKnight’s Senior Living have opened the nomination process for the third annual McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
Reader Poll: How do you make the holidays special for your residents?
Nov 06, 2017
“At Levindale, to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Chanukah, the eight-day Festival of Lights, we light the menorah, community choirs sing, and we have intergenerational programs. Our residents show...