John O'Connor

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.

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.

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.