CLA’s Deb Emerson on staffing mandates and ‘wishful thinking’
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Danielle Brown
Aug 09, 2022
In this Newsmakers Podcast, McKnight’s Long-Term Care News staff writer Danielle Brown sits down with Deb Emerson, principal at accounting and consulting firm CliftonLarsonAllen LLP. They discuss CLA’s…
‘Cracked’ and ‘broken’: Buffy Lloyd-Krejci on nursing home infection prevention
Aug 02, 2022
During the darkest days of the pandemic, Buffy Lloyd-Krejci, DrPH, CIC, traveled to nursing homes across the US to assess their infection control practices and help them adopt protective strategies. What…
Why LTC providers must embrace more palliative care
Jul 27, 2022
In this Newsmakers Podcast, McKnight’s Long-Term Care News staff writer Danielle Brown sits down with Allison Silvers, chief healthcare transformation officer at the Center to the Advance Palliative…
‘We do it for teachers — why not for nurses?’ Her LTC nurse training solution
Jul 19, 2022
Long-term care nursing administration expert Jackie Vance knows how the nation can climb out of its nursing shortage — and she shares systems that work as her evidence in this podcast moderated by McKnight’s…
Providers already have the answers to their staffing problems — if they know where to look
Jul 12, 2022
Long-term care providers can win the recruiting battle for workers by using current staff members’ own observations to better build their “employee brand,” advises a top consultant, former administrator…
Long-term care leadership ‘vision’ takes a big leap
Jul 05, 2022
The vision Douglas Olson, Ph.D., first outlined six years ago for more robust educational and training programs for long-term care leaders is barreling toward fruition. Recently renamed the Vision Centre,…
What might the RaDonda Vaught conviction mean for skilled nursing?
Jun 28, 2022
Should workers in skilled nursing be worried about similar scenarios playing out in their sector? With staffing shortages and an increased reliance on technology, attorneys Matt Keris and Drew Graham say…
Tackling decline with a new type of aging collaborative
Jun 21, 2022
Johns Hopkins Human Aging Project director Jeremy Walston, MD, discusses how tech-informed devices, treatments and AI will likely play key roles in identifying and addressing functional and cognitive decline.
LTC career success: How to get it, from those who have it
Jun 08, 2022
At the recent McKnight’s Women of Distinction Forum, six outstanding leaders shared their insights on what both men and women can do to climb the long-term care career ladder with greater speed and agility.
Making space for clinical trials in long-term care
Jun 01, 2022
Principle CEO Lynn Hood, Principle COO Joylin Nation and Tyler Miller of Care Access to learn what it takes to make a drug trial partnership work — and why the success of such initiatives matters not…
‘We don’t want to be abandoned again’: Providers fear federal COVID support will go away with PHE
May 24, 2022
Nursing home providers are afraid the support the industry has received during the COVID-19 pandemic will be non-existent once the public health emergency declaration comes to a close — despite a historic…
An LTC hero rises above a deadly natural disaster
May 11, 2022
Cassie Morris, the assistant director of nursing at Mayfield Health and Rehab, the top manager on site at the time, presciently led a practice drill just hours before a major twister hit. That and other…
Unraveling PREP Act immunity for providers with Drew Graham and Olga Kats-Chalfant
May 03, 2022
Nursing home providers seeking protection from lawsuits and financial liability related to the care they’ve provided during the pandemic are largely dependent on the federal PREP Act, especially…
‘Remote possibility’ CMS phases in proposed pay cuts for SNFs
Apr 26, 2022
Now is the time for skilled nursing providers to let their voices be heard after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its SNF proposed pay rule for fiscal 2023, which calls for $320 million…
‘Trust’ will help nursing homes weather ‘incredible storm’ of reform and pay cuts
Apr 19, 2022
Thanks to an enormous proposed Medicare pay cut from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, plus the Biden administration’s sweeping new plans for nursing home reform, operators find themselves…
‘Sufficient’ will no longer be sufficient as CMS rewrites nursing home staffing rules
Apr 12, 2022
Moderator Kimberly Marselas leads this insightful conversation on practical considerations, providers’ wish-list items and legal concerns that come with such major reform.
State of the Union insights
Mar 02, 2022
In this McKnight’s Newsmakers podcast, McKnight’s Long-Term Care News Executive Editor Jim Berklan, McKnight’s Editorial Director John O’Connor and New Hampshire Health Care Association…
Talking M&A and ‘client’s choice’ with skilled nursing experts
Nov 16, 2021
Today’s sellers have plenty of options. Here, Laca Wong-Hammond, managing director and head of mergers and acquisitions for Lument, and Brandon Gill, the firm’s associate director for seniors’…
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News Newsmakers Podcast with Daniel Reingold: How to change your community’s…
Nov 06, 2021
In this podcast, Daniel Reingold, M.S.W., J.D., president and CEO of RiverSpring Living, discusses why long-term care providers need to capitalize more often on the positive news about their…
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News Newsmakers Podcast with Larry Minnix: A bright conversation with…
Nov 03, 2021
Congenial long-term care luminary and sought-after consultant Larry Minnix, past president and CEO of LeadingAge, returns to the convention floor to discuss the most significant problems facing long-term…
