Scooped once but the next COVID-19 bombshell could be theirs
Hypotheses about the value of COVID-19 vaccinations for long-term care staff could be blown out of the water soon.
Daily Editors’ Notes
One more shot at being superhuman
Normally, my family spends Labor Day weekend at a rustic cabin in the wooded foothills of Western Maryland, nestled just between the Pennsylvania and West Virginia borders. There’s no TV, spotty (if any) cell phone coverage and very few unwelcome distractions from the lifelong friends we drive hours to see. But for the second year…
‘Now we are engaged in a great civil war’
iI some ways, we are now involved in a civil war. This modern-day battle pits those in favor of COVID-19 vaccinations against those who remain opposed.
Nursing homes’ rare triumph in pandemic times
Maybe there’s something to the saying that if you howl loud and long enough, you’ll get somebody’s attention.
Put this on repeat: Heroes shine in stormy weather
Hurricane Ida’s remnants inundated parts of New Jersey with up to 10 inches of rain in violent downpours last Wednesday, but an outpouring of support from the state’s largest private nursing home operator is also worth noting.
Who invited them?
After O’Connor family gatherings, it’s always the outrageous attendees who are remembered and later talked about. Nursing home operators can relate, as they’re being reminded yet again after a Hurricane Ida-related debacle.
What does mood have to do with the state of affairs? As it turns out, a lot.
Sometimes you can sleep off a bad mood. This is not one of those times in long-term care.
Worried about private equity in skilled nursing? There’s a way to stem the tide.
Some see a troubling trend growing in nursing home ownership.
When nursing home residents don’t count
The knives are out, now that former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo has resigned.
Let’s give vets a fighting chance
As with Afghanistan, some veterans homes have collapsed under the weight of a crisis, despite the backing of the U.S. government.
Labor help you can’t believe in
Elon Musk is apparently not satisfied with disrupting the transportation, space exploration and telecommunications sectors. Now he is setting his sights on long-term care.
It’s time to put up or shut up on vaccine mandates
Will Wednesday’s White House announcement that COVID-19 vaccinations will be mandated for nursing home employees be a dealbreaker? It depends.
The gig economy finally catches up with long-term care
It’s going to take more than just money to entice people into healthcare and get them to stay
The best is yet to come. But you might not like it.
So I went outside this morning and there they were. Three teenage boys. Waiting for the school bus. That was one quick summer.
Research those CMS dinner invitations thoroughly
I don’t know what was more shocking this week: A warning that federal regulators might actually double the amount they could trim from nursing home reimbursement rates next year or the way some veteran providers took that news as par for the course. It was just a few happy weeks ago that the Centers for…
No stopping them: Pandemics and misinformation don’t care about your borders
If diseases recognized borders, we might never have been in this mess.
Long-term care’s resistance movement
The federal government is urging providers to get staff vaccinated against COVID-19. The major trade groups in this field are doing the same.
A wonderful ‘Humble’ universe for trying days
“Humble Sky [Ages of the Uninhibited Mind],” is Stuart Greenbaum’s first work of fiction. Let’s hope it’s not his last.
Rethinking long-term care’s work week
Workplace scheduling as we knew it will never again be the same. Could we be seeing a four-day work week in long-term care sometime soon?
‘Bunk,’ hooey and other nonsense about vaccine mandates
It appears that meddlers and selfish louts are going to keep the issue of vaccination mandates center stage for at least a while.
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