What an incredible journey, man: After 38 years, ‘conductor’ Pomeranz still on the ultimate roll...
Apr 16, 2024
What started on a whim in the 1980s has come full circle for David V. Pomeranz, who once was a wheelchair transport assistant and on April 1 became the new president and CEO of RiverSpring Living in New...
Staffing, Medicaid policy force nursing homes to ‘self-limit’ access
Apr 09, 2024
One in four skilled nursing beds is offline in Pennsylvania, with providers tying reduced access directly to a lack of frontline staff and Medicaid payment shortfalls. But that’s no one-state issue,...
Banking on long-term care’s resilience and proceeding with optimism
Mar 18, 2024
Lisa McCracken has observed and strategized within the long-term care sector for more than two decades. Now, as the new director of research and analytics for the National Investment Center for Seniors...
Revolutionary times: ‘Blow up’ today’s nursing home model, plus NYC’s first CCRC
Mar 06, 2024
New York City is finally welcoming its first life plan community, and providers around the country have a lot to learn about the process to create it — and the eye-popping array of amenities and...
No ‘level playing field’ for rural nursing home: Diakonos Group’s Kimberly Green
Jan 30, 2024
After an “excruciating” experience closing a rural skilled nursing facility, Kimberly Green, chief operating officer for the Diakonos Group, is warning that more providers will face a cascade of similar...
Nursing homes not planning for value-based care are falling behind
Jan 09, 2024
Does every nursing home need a value-based care strategy today? The answer, says Brian Fuller, ATI Advisory’s new managing director of value-based care design and delivery, is “unequivocally...
‘In the shark’s cage’: Easing wage pressures and increased regulatory burden face LTC operators
Nov 14, 2023
Long-term care salary specialist Matt Leach, of Total Compensation Solutions, assures McKnight’s Executive Editor James M. Berklan in this podcast that even though regulatory burdens and pay transparency...
From expense to investment: Reframing the conversation about administrators-in-training
Nov 07, 2023
As some would-be administrators-in-training struggle to find placements, organizations looking to grow the next generation of long-term care leaders say it’s time for a reset. “We need to look at it...
The ‘Great Collaboration’ that’s transformed a provider’s HR department, and enhanced employee...
Oct 17, 2023
Senior care provider Loretto has created a Learning, Development and Employee Experience Office within its HR department to help employees better develop in many directions. Loretto Chief People Officer...
The first 90 days and beyond: Ramping up staff retention in rural nursing homes
Oct 10, 2023
Some of the most effective workforce retention strategies aren’t necessarily “rocket science,” says Aimee Middleton, vice president of operations for Good Samaritan Society, the nation’s largest...