Mandatory compliance programs for nursing facilities
By
Terese Farhat
Dec 04, 2012
Regardless of whether you are big or small, nursing facility leaders need to be much more vigilant with compliance program efforts.
Nursing homes and unions: ready for another ugly round?
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 28, 2012
Unions in nursing homes may be headed for a new level of negative exposure given the latest flare-up in the eternal battle that has waged in Connecticut. It has already brought partisan criticism to the...
Nursing homes are hospitals’ silent cheering section on this one
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 07, 2012
It’s interesting how competition can make strange bedfellows. Nursing homes and hospitals, for example, are next-door-neighbors on the caregiving block. We all know who has the bigger house on this...
Antipsychotics exert a powerful and often irreversible change in healthy brain chemistry
By
Anthony Chicotel
Jul 30, 2012
A McKnight’s editor’s blog post showed a breathtaking lack of insight into the problem of antipsychotics in long-term care and the superiority of simple non-pharmacologic comfort-focused care.
Commencement speech season heats up
By
Mary Gustafson
May 24, 2012
Since I am sucker for celebrity commencement addresses, mid- to late-May is like my own, personal Christmas.
How nursing homes can cut expenses and still give good raises and benefits
By
Bobby Hotaling
Apr 05, 2011
It is no secret that employee benefit plans are some of a nursing company’s biggest expenses. If health insurance costs are $6,000 to $7,000 a year for each employee, how does management still give...
Five-Star makes complaints against nursing homes even more serious
By
Tyler J. Smith
Jul 06, 2009
Nursing homes have a difficult enough time contending with the survey and certification system. Now that the Five-Star Quality Rating System has begun, they have to work even harder to protect themselves...