Sherrill House’s Stapleton to lead nursing home administrators board
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 20, 2022
Patrick J. Stapleton, CEO of Sherrill House, a not-for-profit skilled nursing and rehabilitation center in Boston, has been unanimously elected chair of the state’s Board of Registration of Nursing Home...
Asif Merchant named medical director of Salmon campus
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 09, 2022
Salmon at Natick, a senior living community with skilled nursing, rehabilitation, assisted living and memory care has hired Asif Merchant, M.D., as medical director. Merchant serves as a COVID-19 vaccine...
A case study in COVID-19 criminality
By
Christy Tosh Crider
Joy Boyd Longnecker
Feb 04, 2021
COVID-19 hit Holyoke Soldiers’ Home last March, when most of us were just learning the term “social distancing” and had no awareness of asymptomatic positives. While the global medical...
A blow to healthcare reform
By
Liza Berger
Jan 20, 2010
The buzz among long-term care providers today, as expected, is the upset in the Massachusetts Senate race. How healthcare reform will play out now is anyone’s guess.