See the future. Make the future. McKnight’s Outlook 2024 survey now needs your insight
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 15, 2023
It takes just a handful of mouse-clicks to take the 2024 McKnight’s Annual Outlook survey. It’s free, it’s anonymous and it will not only lead to story coverage in the week ahead, it will...
Time to ask the tough question: Are you ready for the big O?
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 05, 2023
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be,” Lincoln is quoted as saying. As long-term care heads into 2023, it’s more apropos than ever.
Seeing the future of long-term care in 2023
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James M. Berklan
Dec 02, 2022
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News is asking skilled nursing administrators, assistant administrators, C-suiters, nursing directors and other top nurse managers to take part in our quick “Outlook 2023”...
Parkinson: Nursing home sector pinning hopes on ‘Medicaid adequacy’ rule
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James M. Berklan
Oct 11, 2022
After characterizing business conditions as “never worse,” the skilled nursing sector’s top advocate said stakeholders need more help from both the federal and state governments to forge a viable...
Constructing a case for optimism in seniors housing and care
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James M. Berklan
Mar 24, 2022
You would have been granted a smile and slight nod of optimism if you were wondering whether you needed to attend the early session Thursday at the National Investment Center for Senior Housing & Care’s...
Supreme Court leaves providers to grapple with vaccine mandate, takes other employers off the hook
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Kimberly Marselas
James M. Berklan
Jan 13, 2022
Nursing home operators were already bracing late Thursday for the fallout of a nationwide staff vaccine mandate, just hours after the Supreme Court ruled a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule...
Rolling with the punches, long-term care style
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 06, 2022
It’s amazing how perspectives can change over time. Here we all think we know, and have known, what life with COVID has been like after all these months.
2022 Outlook: Time for providers to write their own story
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 17, 2021
If you’re a provider leader and you’ve ever wished you could have influenced a news story, this is for you. If you simply want to make sure good info gets to the rest of the profession, this is for...
Often victims of rumor or worse, providers now get to write the story
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 17, 2021
It’s no secret that nursing home operators frequently have a beef with media reports. Not here. Not now.
Mood of the Market Survey reveals most long-term care leaders want to stay in the profession, others...
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 01, 2021
2020 McKnight’s Mood of the Market Survey reveals dedicated long-term care leaders looking for better salary and more staff, but by and large satisfied with their jobs, despite historic conditions.