Ask the legal expert: Can an entertainer threaten to sue for breach of contract for canceled performance?
By
John Durso
Dec 01, 2020
Perhaps against better judgment, we gave a guitarist/singer second and third chances to entertain our residents on a contracted basis. Twice this performer has canceled at the last minute, leaving us high...
Curve Health capitalizes on new interest in telehealth
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 01, 2020
Six million dollars in seed funding will allow Curve Health to expand its platform, combining long-term care telemedicine, smart billing, health information exchange and predictive analytics, and attract...
Reliant Rehab now serves Diversicare
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 01, 2020
Diversicare Healthcare Services and its 62 skilled nursing facilities have outsourced therapy services to Reliant Rehabilitation.
December Company Briefs
Dec 01, 2020
TapestryHealth expanded its primary care services to assisted living and memory care. The company said its experience understanding seniors’ anxieties and dealing with psychiatric behaviors in skilled...
How to do it … Designing safe, useful spaces
By
John Hall
Dec 01, 2020
COVID-19 has placed restrictions on many “nonessential” projects like renovation. Money is tight. To adapt to the current COVID-19 conditions on limited budgets, administrators and staff are repurposing...
Odds are good in Paradise
By
John Andrews
Dec 01, 2020
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...