Empty beds, untenable staffing needs push the nation’s rural nursing homes closer to the brink
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 08, 2024
Like many of its skilled nursing neighbors in the Cornhusker State, Good Samaritan Society-Bloomfield is teetering between fulfilling its vital community role with special small-town flourishes and succumbing...
Developing a strategic roadmap for successful value-based care partnerships
Nov 17, 2023
How to positively impact resident care and safeguard your communities’ future Long-term care providers play a crucial role in ensuring the health of the elderly and others who have complex medical needs...
Tech guru Scott Code makes connections early
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 11, 2023
Scott Code has seen firsthand how digital technology can help support long-term care providers and keep seniors engaged.
SAMI: The tech integration spurring an increase in resident occupancy rates
Apr 20, 2023
ShiftKey CEO, Tom Ellis, discusses how tech-forward approaches to workforce gaps empower licensed professionals and enable facilities to make informed decisions that drive effective, consistent care.
Psychotropic stewardship can be the cure to stepped-up audits
Feb 27, 2023
CMS plans to increase psychotropic drugs oversight – to include targeted audits. These stepped up efforts follow the latest updates to the State Operations Manual surveyors started using...
Revenue-boosting strategies for a struggling SNF industry
Feb 08, 2023
The pandemic has changed the revenue drivers for skilled nursing providers. Revenue recovery & diversification Post-acute care, which nationally has tended to be less than 25% of patient days of care but...
Everything is driven by staffing quality, surveys and stars
Jan 24, 2023
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Thriving in a career a world away: Meera Riner
By
Nicole Bowman
Jan 20, 2023
Meera Riner’s first job after college was as an occupational therapist working in the slums of Mumbai with children who suffered from cerebral palsy and polio. Parents might carry children across the...
It takes a (winter) village…
By
Foster Stubbs
Jan 10, 2023
Ed Templin has lived all over the place in his life. Originally from Kentucky, he also called Illinois, Maryland and Arizona home before settling in Ohio, where he has lived since 1954. Being the son of...
How providers can achieve control with risky value-based pay schemes, diversification
Sep 13, 2022
Fred Bentley of ATI Advisory joins McKnight’s Executive Editor James M. Berklan in a Newsmakers podcast to discuss what value-based payment options are growing in popularity, and what providers of all...