Today is the Day for the McKnight’s Fall Online Expo!
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 17, 2019
Grab a cup of coffee and join us this morning for the McKnight’s Fall Online Expo, giving you vital insights into PDPM and technology’s role in strategic change — for free! The virtual doors are...
PDPM, innovation highlight McKnight’s Fall Online Expo
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 10, 2019
Strategies for mastering the transition to the Patient-Driven Payment Model strategy get top billing at the 2019 McKnight’s Fall Online Expo, scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 18. In addition to two PDPM...
Carp and camaraderie: Fishing partnership reels in new friends
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 19, 2019
Three years into a program that pairs local sportsmen with a Pennsylvania nursing home, residents and staff have fallen hook, line and sinker for the carp and the camaraderie. When the fishermen first...
Study uncovers deep effects of night shift work on body
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 08, 2018
Working a few night shifts is enough to change gene expression and dampen the body’s ability to fight off attacks, a new Canadian study reveals. Researchers at McGill University simulated a night...
Bankruptcy court OKs Omega’s plan to offload 23 Orianna properties
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 15, 2018
Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. announced Monday that a bankruptcy court will allow it to transition 23 of its 42 Orianna facilities to a new operator as part of the company’s restructuring.
Worth the risk
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 06, 2017
Owners and operators of long-term care facilities can entice increasingly discerning financial partners into niche projects — if they go about it the right way
Question, blame, repeat: The all-too predictable COVID cycle
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 08, 2022
Will there be six more weeks of hand-wringing when it comes to placing political blame for early COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes? It’s all part of the COVID cycle.
Not ‘the life we want’ as elders? Don’t settle for normalcy
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 26, 2021
Katie Smith Sloan, leader of the nation’s main advocacy group for nonprofit long-term care providers, this week told her members that the pandemic has given them a “significant opportunity to redefine...
This season, the gifts will just keep on comin’
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 17, 2021
There’s no more dreading what’s in the box, no fear that you’re getting some dud gift dressed up in the fanciest of double-sided wrapping paper.
Related business interests fueling operator activity in skilled nursing: lender
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 04, 2021
HOUSTON — Ancillary businesses that depend on access to nursing homes helped to sustain interest in the skilled nursing market throughout 2021, even as census labored below 2019 levels, according to...