As we head into the day most symbolic in the U.S. for thankfulness, the entire McKnight’s publishing family extends best wishes, hopes for finding many reasons for gratitude and many happy, healthy days ahead.
Long-term care operators will be monitoring residents’ comings and goings around year-end holidays to an unprecedented degree this year. The week ahead, with Thanksgiving observances, will be the first huge test.
I was taught long ago that liquor has a way of magnifying something that’s already there. A truly happy person will becomes extremely jocular and gregarious when drunk. On the other hand, an innately unhappy person will become a mean or abusive drunk. America, safe to say, is in the midst of a heck of…
Helping staff members streamline administrative and operational functions to provide more hands-on resident care during the pandemic, especially during the height of flu season, will be the focus of a special McKnight’s webinar on Tuesday (Nov. 17).
There is no Person of the Year contest this year. It’s been decided for a long time already
Long-term care providers and their lobbyists are “completely and totally” focused on dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, regardless of the presidential election results, a top association leader assured Friday.
One might think that an organization with thousands of members and many varied ideologies might require a leader who manages with a stern voice and an iron fist. In the case of LeadingAge, the organization of nonprofit aging services providers chose to go in another direction at the turn of the century, and it couldn’t have been happier.
The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (formerly known as AMDA) will hold the educational conference Nov. 20 and 21.
Although the outcome of the biggest political race Tuesday isn’t known yet, long-term care providers appear to have eluded the most dangerous kind of results.
Despite the federal government supplying every eligible nursing home in the country with COVID-19 rapid-testing equipment, only a small fraction of them were taking advantage of it, a team of researchers revealed Friday. Even in “hot spot” counties where the Department of Health and Human Services had delivered point-of-care devices by mid-August, less than 17%…
