Nursing shortages, and why ‘nobody wants to work anymore’
By
Jean Wendland Porter
May 02, 2023
Everyone has been feeling the nursing shortage, and now the Biden administration has tightened staffing rules, and that order will become a harbinger of more skilled nursing facility crises and closings....
Keeping your employees by knowing their worth
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Jul 26, 2022
Everyone is in a hiring bind. Twenty-four percent of American SNFs report as short-staffed. I’m surprised it’s that low. We are stressed by losing staff, scheduling interviews with no-shows, and...
Short-handed or short-sighted?
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Feb 15, 2017
When we communicate that we are having staffing issues, whether or not that communication is correct, we are telling the residents and their families that we can’t do our jobs.
The future of restorative
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Jun 11, 2019
For those who are considering how to manage therapy in four months when they’re no longer using therapy as the primary revenue-producer, how about utilizing the therapy staff more for training restorative?
Breaking down the therapy changes
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Nov 08, 2021
Proposed rules almost always become final rules. On November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (after threatening for four years) finalized the 15% payment reduction for outpatient...
Back to business as unusual
By
Jean Wendland Porter
May 30, 2023
On May 11, 2023, the Public Health Emergency ended in the United States. Obviously, the whole world is celebrating the diminished COVID-19 numbers and the drop in COVID-related deaths. But we’ve been...
Don’t let up this fall. A potential ‘twindemic’ awaits.
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Nov 02, 2020
The sun is shining, the sky is blue, the leaves are turning and the temperature is dropping. It’s another lovely fall day, but what does that mean for those of us in healthcare? October is when we...
Restart rehabilitation
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Dec 06, 2023
I’ve been a physical therapist for a very long time, and as I prepare to renew my license for the four millionth time, I reflect on how my profession has changed. All of our professions have changed...
Never ruin an apology with an excuse
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Jun 28, 2022
Never ruin an apology with an excuse – Ben Franklin Medical malpractice is not something we like to think about. For my entire career, even though I worked for corporations and individual entities,...
Trickle-down negativity
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Oct 25, 2017
I’ve seen it so often it becomes routine: Your coworkers complain about everything, they keep complaining, you start complaining just to join in, and soon you’re involved in Complain-Fest 2017.