Memorial Day weekend usually ushers in a feeling of lightness, but I’m weighed down by uncertainty this year. Will it be a summer of discontent?
‘To her, it’s home’
By
John O'Connor
Mar 19, 2022
The next time one of your residents acts out in your home, or seems unusually grumpy, or is pressing on your last nerve, try to remember this: That person has been through it.
Question, blame, repeat: The all-too predictable COVID cycle
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 08, 2022
Will there be six more weeks of hand-wringing when it comes to placing political blame for early COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes? It’s all part of the COVID cycle.
The best columns of 2019
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 19, 2019
Here are some of our best-read blog posts of 2019. Check them out again, or if you haven’t seen them yet, by all means take a look. These are too good to miss.
Maybe this ‘monumental’ LTC collaboration could serve as a cure for political polarization
By
Marty Stempniak
Apr 02, 2019
With all of the challenges that the skilled nursing field is facing nowadays, it would be easy to further define that line in the sand between you and your competitors/adversaries.
NAB is making major CE changes. Register now or suffer later.
By
John O'Connor
Feb 26, 2018
Long-term care professionals in the habit of obtaining continuing education credits from the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards had better brace for some dramatic changes that...
Gear up for another healthcare payment fight
By
Elizabeth Newman
Sep 20, 2017
Watching the GOP try to force through its latest healthcare reform plan, which would once again hit Medicaid hard, I was reminded of something my mother used to jokingly say: “It’s like deja...
Speech plans shouldn’t be a hard act to swallow
Feb 05, 2016
How do you discuss a speech or swallow-care plan with someone who might not be able to communicate well?
Finally, a leader who’s willing to speak out
Aug 10, 2015
Among the police, it’s known as the blue wall of silence. This unwritten rule regularly comes into play when a fellow officer’s errors, poor behavior or possible crimes are under scrutiny....
No reason to cheer fiscal cliff ‘solution’
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 02, 2013
Should a person be congratulated and backslapped for simply doing his or her job? That’s the question that should be on people’s minds today as they ponder what has happened with fiscal cliff...