When it comes to developing strategic partnerships across the post-acute care spectrum, love can cloud our judgment.
Grandmother-level quality
By
Renee Kinder
Jun 21, 2018
My grandmother decided to have an elective knee replacement — at 89 years of age — followed by a stay for rehab in a skilled nursing facility. Quality matters to her and therefore I wanted to know...
Mommy, work’s all done
By
Renee Kinder
Mar 16, 2017
It’s 10:42 p.m. when I finally pull into the driveway. A six-and-a-half-hour drive home from a site visit. My in-laws’ car is not in the driveway. I take a deep breath. This means that my husband...
RCS-Done … Tech Support, please!
By
Renee Kinder
May 10, 2018
I was all ready for my presentation on RCS-I, and then I literally lost power and had the run yanked out from under me at the same time.
Speaking ‘out of turn’
By
Renee Kinder
Jun 08, 2017
It is up to caregivers to determine what individuals are attempting to express, and how they should adjust care to meet their needs.
Naughty or Nice?
By
Renee Kinder
Dec 22, 2016
If left up to me this holiday season, I vote let them be NAUGHTY.
Rehab Week 2017: Where’s the skill?
By
Renee Kinder
Sep 28, 2017
Therapists across the nation had reason to celebrate their varied and respected skills last week. It was National Rehab Awareness Week after all. My, how the celebrations went down.
Ghosts of therapists past
By
Renee Kinder
Nov 08, 2018
Therapists experience the same impact when facing the ghosts of predecessors in their own therapy departments. And when considering the spirits of old habits needing to be shifted by significant changes...
Is your rehab partner wearing blinders?
By
Renee Kinder
Jan 19, 2017
Never, ever bet on a horse wearing blinders. Why, you ask? Because, of course, a horse wearing blinders must be irresponsible, uncontrollable and, worst of all, completely unaware of its surroundings....
Beware frog holes and ‘I don’t knows’
By
Renee Kinder
Feb 01, 2018
Is there anything more thrilling on a winter day than sledding down the neighborhood’s steepest hill, across freshly fallen snow, in an inner tube? I think not.