In a nation where more than 10,000 people turn 65 each day, you might think the House of Representatives would surely have a committee that considers the interests and needs of our rapidly-aging population….
As COVID carnage may cool, expect the heat on nursing homes to rise
By
James M. Berklan
May 19, 2022
You can have big trouble at the doorstep and not be able to do anything about it if you’re not paying close enough attention.
Are women standing on the glass ceiling — or not?
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 17, 2022
Thoughts of barriers still preventing women from reaching the sector’s pinnacle put a minor damper on an event otherwise filled with bright spots and inspirational tales.
The best reason of all to reduce staff turnover
By
John O'Connor
May 15, 2022
Any long-term care professional will tell you that finding and keeping qualified employees is getting harder by the day. For reasons that range from The Great Resignation to greener pastures elsewhere,…
Wondering: Did nursing travel back in a time machine?
By
James M. Berklan
May 12, 2022
During a time when nurses have never been in higher demand, and salaries for them and so many other healthcare professionals are leaping, researchers reported that the salary gap between male and female…
When it comes to long-term care, divided we stand
By
John O'Connor
May 08, 2022
Turns out a current movement in long-term care might deserve a certain moniker: The Great Divide. The term aptly describes a bifurcation now taking place between those who are shedding and those who are…
Providers reveal why they didn’t collapse under federal staff vaccination mandate
By
James M. Berklan
May 06, 2022
Nobody can ever accuse long-term care providers of not being passionate.
This group has a lock on aging in place
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 04, 2022
There’s one rapidly aging in place population that not many pundits are thinking of in their equations. And it’s growing explosively.
Long-term care’s staffing woes move up the ranks
By
John O'Connor
May 01, 2022
When staffing challenges are discussed, they tend to focus on frontline employees and middle managers. But as perhaps never before, long-term care is being forced to deal with losses at the very top.
Spring fever must not derail nursing homes
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 28, 2022
Upcoming graduates have it especially bad, but it strikes just about every student this time of year: spring fever.
A stressed sector must find a way to stress better behavioral care
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 26, 2022
When CMS issued its new behavioral health strategy last week, the phrase “nursing home” was strangely absent from the outline. But given all the attention it has streamed on skilled nursing lately,…
Long-term care, except for the long-term care part
By
John O'Connor
Apr 24, 2022
Long-term car operators — motivated by a combination of new economic realities, fear and sometimes greed — are changing strategies and tactics as never before
Good news for providers? Yes, there is some
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 21, 2022
If anyone wants any further proof we’re living in twisted times, consider the current lot of a nursing home operator.
Recruiting immigrants? Invite them in and wrap them up
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 19, 2022
The message is clear then that providers who want to succeed while on this recruitment journey must prepare for some key challenges; chief among them is the idea that these workers, like any others, will…
Long-term care: a bear or bull market?
By
John O'Connor
Apr 18, 2022
When it comes to the long-term care market, is this a time to view it as bearish or bullish?
Now we’re really going to find what these long-term care leaders are capable of
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 15, 2022
Whatever your experience with long-term care leaders and lobbyists, you better hope they’re good at their game now.
Put your paws together for this new nursing home celebrity
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 12, 2022
When she’s not shooting ad campaigns, Annie Rose is a therapy dog who works with seniors at nursing homes and retirement communities.
Long-term care reform on a grand scale
By
John O'Connor
Apr 10, 2022
Every now and then a study sizing up the state of long-term care comes along. The one dropped last week is very different from others.
Blame some of the latest nursing home hoopla on Abraham Lincoln
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 08, 2022
A hefty product from an all-star team of researchers is at once the biggest headache or, as we shall see, the best gift a nursing home stakeholder could ask for. All thanks to … Abraham Lincoln?
Growing old ain’t what it used to be
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 06, 2022
There’s nothing like a couple of days of business travel to make you feel old.
