The new Trellis Paradise offers the greater Las Vegas area a spacious and eye-catching community for skilled nursing and rehabilitation.
Change? Don’t flip out
By
John O'Connor
Dec 01, 2020
When I hear about innovation in long-term care, I sometimes have to stifle a chuckle.
A welcome vision for leadership in the field
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 01, 2020
Experts seem to agree: Long-term care leadership is one thing that’s not suffering during this pandemic. On the contrary.
CMS offers us lessons in person-centered care
By
Renee Kinder
Dec 01, 2020
We all crowded around the television, pizza and leftover Halloween candy in hand, and watched national and local election results come in.
At last, a wisp of hope
By
Gary Tetz
Dec 01, 2020
Gather around, dearly beloved long-term care people. Let’s have a little talk. I’m looking at all of you, in every facility role — the whole heroic and beautiful group. We’ll meet in the parking...
COVID-19 inspires ‘overdue’ infection control innovation
By
John Hall
Dec 01, 2020
Shortage of supplies along with need for protocols relating to testing, cohorting, visitation lead to change.
Contact tracing may come of age, thanks to pandemic
By
John Hall
Dec 01, 2020
COVID-19 has revived interest in an old technology as experts look to it as a tool for controlling outbreaks.
December FocusOn Briefs
Dec 01, 2020
Company promotes disposable pads, NPWT incontinence care; Reusable N95 respirator inches closer to market; Nearly half of residents with COVID-19 asymptomatic: study; Company promotes disposable pads,...
Project aims to grow happiness
By
Danielle Brown
Dec 01, 2020
A New York-based grassroots effort launched to help nursing homes and their residents cope during the coronavirus pandemic has been able to send gifts to nearly 60 facilities nationwide with the help of...