It’s time for LTC consultants to change
After nights of sleepless worry on consultants’ behalf, I’ve developed a tweak to the old consulting model that will transform the way they do business and make their skills newly marketable.
Most recent articles by Gary Tetz
Gary Tetz: Hands off my salt!
Here’s a question that just popped unwelcome into my idle mind. When time taps me on the shoulder and beckons toward a long-term care facility, what should I pack?
Weird, wild and precious
So, let me get this straight: While others are sprinkling Xanax on their Lucky Charms every morning, I found a long-term care leader who’s excited about PDPM? Something clearly wasn’t right with the man.
If this is your sole motivation, it’s not worth it
Yikes. That’s about all I can think to say here at the start of 2019 in long-term care.
Moving beyond well-intentioned Resolutions and embracing the New Year’s ‘Revelation’
Whether politically, professionally or culturally, did any new year approach with less subtlety than 2019? Usually, these calendar-turns sneak up in velvet slippers, and what masquerades as new is mostly more of the old.
A simple thank-you
Thanks for being the supercharged superheroes of love and compassion you become every December.
A new Golden Rule for social media use in long-term care
I’ll admit it. I’m still a little angry. If righteous indignation were an alternative fuel source, I could solve climate change all on my own.
Things I Think: Fall leads to a rebirth
For many of us, the transition from spring to fall brings melancholy and thinly-veiled fear — in life and in long-term care.
Scattering seeds
It was my birthday yesterday — the same day I found out that Fernald, a World War II veteran and one of the wisest, bravest and most adorable people I’ve ever known, had passed away.
Things I Think: Champions of change
In long-term care, massive change is always afoot. Whatever was true 20 minutes ago isn’t anymore, and the new normal will be an unrecognizable stranger by nightfall. But there’s one thing that hasn’t changed: the way most people feel about change. We hate it, fear it, fight it. But since it’s inevitable, I asked some…
