The tough news is the COVID-19 pandemic has tested long-term care facilities like never before. The great news is providers have responded like never before.
Quantifying TLC
By
Liza Berger
Jul 15, 2020
If nothing else, the COVID-19 has made us deeply ponder: Just how important is human interaction to our health?
COVID-19 fact finding
By
Liza Berger
Jul 08, 2020
Several months after the first outbreak in a nursing home near Seattle, we have finally gotten our arms around some indisputable facts regarding this virus,
An antidote to the ugly news
By
Liza Berger
Jul 01, 2020
Sometimes when the news is on an extended somber run, you just have to turn your attention to another subject entirely to maintain a sense of perspective and normalcy.
What the mask really means
By
Liza Berger
Jun 24, 2020
I recently returned from a week’s vacation to Northern Michigan, one of my favorite places. One issue in particular, however, troubled this trip.
McKnight’s Online Forum Wednesday to cover clinical care, global lessons learned and infection...
Jun 23, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges for long-term care and senior living communities. McKnight’s will tackle three key issues during its Online Forum: COVID-19 Update IV on...
Once again, thank you, brave nursing home workers
By
Liza Berger
Jun 10, 2020
It has been said before, but it bears repeating: Nursing home and other frontline healthcare workers are the ones most at the mercy of this awful coronavirus. And now we have the death lists to prove it.
Just what you always wanted: More penalties
By
Liza Berger
Jun 03, 2020
The coronavirus is the proverbial gift that keeps on giving — to nursing homes, in particular.
McKnight’s tackles leadership, business continuity during COVID-19 in Thursday’s Online Forum
Jun 01, 2020
The coronavirus will be the subject of a third McKnight’s Online Forum, to take place this Thursday. McKnight’s will hone in on two particular COVID-19-related subjects during this FREE event:...
Heroes leading long-term care’s charge
By
Liza Berger
May 27, 2020
This week, the History Channel ran a three-part series on General Ulysses S. Grant. I became a fan of Grant recently after reading the autobiography “Grant” by Ron Chernow, author of other massive...