Kudos continue to roll in for McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, with the publication being named one of the nation’s best business publications on Thursday.
The inevitable is here
By
Gary Tetz
Aug 09, 2018
Staffing is inadequate and erratic at many of the nation’s nursing homes?
Money mischief brings harsh penalties for CEO, associates
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 09, 2018
All five participants in a massive series of fraud, kickback and money-laundering schemes centering on American Senior Communities were handed lengthy sentences in July, most of them behind bars.
Also in the News for Thursday, July 12
Jul 12, 2018
Last ASC exec receives probation … VA Secretary nominee clears hurdle on way to confirmation … Nursing home fined after short-staffing leads to hungry residents … State lawmakers sue...
Senior living executives sentenced
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 10, 2018
The former chief operating officer of American Senior Communities was sentenced to 4½ years in prison last week as part of a fraud scheme that also took down the company’s CEO.
Park in the Visitor spot
By
Gary Tetz
Jul 09, 2018
It sits, beckoning but unattainable, just outside the entrance to your long-term care facility — the Visitor parking spot. You can see it, but don’t dare use it. Every day, in big, block letters,...
Overflow crowd sees former American Senior Communities CEO get 9½ years for $19 million fraud, kickback...
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 02, 2018
A U.S. District Court judge leaned closer to prosecuting attorneys’ recommendations than defense attorneys’ on Friday and sentenced former nursing home executive James Burkhart to 9½-years...
Things I Think: Out of control, loving it
By
Gary Tetz
Jun 08, 2018
Pretty much any sense of personal control — in your schedule, to-do list or even life sometimes. That’s what you’ll have to give up to be a great, and happy, long-term care facility administrator....
McKnight’s blog, e-book win national journalism awards from ASBPE
By
James M. Berklan
May 17, 2018
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News has been honored with two 2018 national journalism awards from the Association of Business Publication Editors.
Things I Think: Lessons from the lobby
By
Gary Tetz
May 08, 2018
For a microcosm of life in perpetual motion, its pleasures and challenges, and every accompanying human emotion, it’s not necessary to loiter at the airport. Just sit quietly in the lobby of any...