A reminder for good senior health: How much screen time is too much?
By
Barbara Resnick
Paul Katz
May 13, 2024
A study published in the April issue of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association provides some guidance about how much recreational TV watching and screen time is detrimental to mental...
Improving disaster preparedness for the most vulnerable
By
James Lewis
Mar 04, 2024
I read Lauren Southerland’s column for McKnight’s Senior Living, “Is your senior living community prepared for the next disaster?” with great interest as I lead the policy team for the American...
Whose life is it anyway?
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Sep 21, 2023
My family is full of therapists, and most of us work in skilled nursing. My sister, an experienced speech language pathologist, called to commiserate about one of her patients who had difficulty swallowing. ...
LTC company bucks trend and adds skilled nursing beds
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Sep 14, 2023
While many long-term care facilities are closing skilled nursing wings or decertifying beds, one healthcare company in northeastern Pennsylvania is bucking that trend and adding to its skilled nursing...
Nursing home destroyed by tornado close to reopening, will honor ‘heroic’ staff and residents
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Jul 24, 2023
An Arkansas nursing home that was destroyed by a powerful tornado is close to reopening and says it is once again ready to provide a caring and welcoming environment for its residents and staff. ...
Amid early success, provider doubles training program, also boosts frontline pay
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Jun 28, 2023
The largest nursing home provider in central New York plans to double its paid training program for certified nurse aides, opening up more career pathways for workers at a second campus.
Civil trial begins for first US nursing home with COVID outbreak, deaths
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 17, 2023
Providers did not follow infection control policies, plaintiffs alleged at the opening of the civil trial targeting the first nursing home in the US to have a recognized COVID-19 outbreak.
Private equity in the crosshairs: Administration continues to question role of private equity in LTC
By
Tom Barnard
Alison Schurick
Kathleen R. Salsbury
Sabrina Marquez
Mar 13, 2023
Over the past year, the Biden administration has expressed serious doubts about the developing role of private equity investment in the long-term care industry. In a Fact Sheet released in late February...
Life Care must face trial in 2 of nation’s earliest COVID deaths
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 31, 2023
Life Care Centers of America and one of its operating partners must face a wrongful death trial for alleged lapses in protocol at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a federal judge ruled Friday.
An analysis of PREP Act immunity for LTC facilities
By
Norris Cunningham
Angela Rinehart
Dec 04, 2022
A host of lawsuits over the past two years involve nursing homes where patients or their estates allege that patients contracted COVID-19 due to the facilities’ negligence or failure to properly act. ...
