Addressing long-term care’s union challenge
When it comes to labor unions, life has afforded me a somewhat unique perspective.
When it comes to labor unions, life has afforded me a somewhat unique perspective.
If you are an administrator who is about to take a job, you do have some leverage. And you might want to do what a certain incredibly successful football coach did.
I have a suggestion for skilled care operators who aren’t losing enough sleep due to COVID-19.
When we don’t like what we see or hear, most of us can turn on the raging cave man/cave woman switch awfully fast.
Among other things, COVID-19 has helped confirm what we know about long-term care and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The pandemic has also revealed a few new things about both. Let’s address skilled care first. The past half year has made it obvious that this is a field full of heroes, especially on…
I have a suggestion for skilled care operators who aren’t losing enough sleep due to COVID-19. Consider home care. As in, consider home care as your next big competitor.
Long-term care may be constantly changing. Still, some issues never seem to vanish. Take uneven survey and enforcement practices. A recent problem? Hardly. In fact, it was one of Sheldon Goldberg’s chief concerns as executive vice president of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
It’s no secret that most operators have been struggling lately. The coronavirus has hammered this field in almost every way possible.
The incident happened when I was about 10 years old, playing touch football in front of my parents’ home. After dropping a pass that should have been caught, I dropped an s-bomb.
You’d think that after all these years, nursing homes would not still be on what amount to a fiscal starvation diet. Yet here we are.