Rein it in. Deputy Lanclos is on patrol at this Louisiana nursing home
By
Foster Stubbs
Jan 18, 2023
Christopher Lanclos has faced his fair share of trials and tribulations from the day he was born. Now resident of Hammond Nursing Home, Lanclos wasn’t supposed to live past a few weeks after an accident...
Wound care
Feb 01, 2011
Chronic wounds are a rising challenge for long-term caregivers and, of course, a scourge for residents. They can easily lead to extended stays, costly care and complications that neither caregivers nor...
Dementia care boost
By
Kim Warchol
Feb 01, 2011
Kim Warchol, OTR/L Founder, Dementia Care Specialists Inc.
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...
New short-cycle law: Is it worth the pain?
By
John Andrews
Feb 01, 2011
Long-term care pharmacists will have to adjust to shorter dispensation cycles
There’s no place like home
By
Mary Gustafson
Feb 01, 2011
This Green House care model uses leading technology to make a nursing home truly a home away from home, for residents, families
‘We don’t want to be abandoned again’: Providers fear federal COVID support will go away with PHE
May 24, 2022
Nursing home providers are afraid the support the industry has received during the COVID-19 pandemic will be non-existent once the public health emergency declaration comes to a close — despite a historic...
CMS ‘heartless’ for its big nursing home pay cut proposal
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 12, 2022
Providers are struggling with the federal government’s “heartless” decision to decrease pay for SNFs by $320 million in fiscal 2023.