Squeezing fresh survey juice out of yet another Congressional blame-game
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 10, 2024
There can be little doubt that the same uncertainty and disagreements between public health and elected leaders will emerge. What can’t happen again are the structural deficiencies in our public health...
The unsound and the fury
By
John O'Connor
Aug 18, 2024
Will nursing homes soon challenge CMS guidance that might be considered unclear? And what about controversial interpretations made by other agencies?
A surprisingly quick end to the nursing home staffing mandate?
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 15, 2024
Readers might have been surprised to learn earlier this week that provider advocates and federal regulators actually agreed on something about the nursing home staffing mandate.
LTC: a market defined by contrasts
By
John O'Connor
Aug 11, 2024
When it comes to sizing up the long-term care market, is it too much of a cliché to trot out Charles Dickens’ famous “best of times, worst of times” line?
Nursing home workers, this time the research is on your side
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 08, 2024
As is probably no shock to anyone who worked in a nursing home from 2020 to 2023, caregivers in that setting were found to suffer more profound psychological and related stresses than their counterparts...
In this game of tag, delay tactics are another way to change the rules
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 07, 2024
For better or for worse, the survey game is one all nursing homes are forced to play.
Discovering the truth about long-term care
By
John O'Connor
Aug 03, 2024
Growing up as the child of immigrants in a working-class neighborhood, there were two things I held to be gospel: Unions and Democrats were good.
Open source AI brings promise and perils
By
John O'Connor
Jul 27, 2024
It looks like Mark Zuckerberg is once again positioning himself as the tech industry’s moral compass. Who says irony is dead?
The NeverEnding Story of long-term care
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 23, 2024
Certain long-term care plot lines have the pacing of a soap opera. Leave for a week and that CMS rule we’re all waiting for — well, we’re still waiting for it!
When long-term care operators swim naked
By
John O'Connor
Jul 19, 2024
Warren Buffet famously said, “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”