BY SCOTT A. MAGER, ESQ. The landscape for the long-term care industry is not a pretty sight. Advertising by lawyers sensationalizing negative
Read More » BY DAVID DILLON, ASA, AND BONNIE ALBRITTON, ASA Many CCRCs conduct operations on a short-term cash basis. They pore over last quarter's monthly fee
Read More » BY MARIA MOTSAVAGEOur organization had been struggling for years with declining resident satisfaction scores, increasing employee turnover, and a
Read More » BY RICHARD L. PECK, EDITOR-IN-CHIEFNursing Homes/Long Term Care Management asked readers to give Washington's policymakers letter grades on several
Read More » editorialBY RICHARD L. PECK, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF You might have noticed that articles on "how to choose a nursing home" have become an editorial staple
Read More » BY DAVID LENNOX, PHD Where would you feel safer working, a nursing home or a coal mine? According to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration
Read More » BY ALLAN G. KOMAREK, PHD, RN In the late 1970s, Angelica Thieriot created the Planetree Organization in an attempt to personalize, humanize, and
Read More » BY RONDA CHRISTOPHER The Long Term Care division of Mercy Health Partners designed a collaborative oversight team, called the Mock Survey Team
Read More » BY RICHARD L. PECK, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF PROJECT SUMMARYType of Facility/Setting: Skilled Nursing/Dementia CareOwner: The A.M. McGregor
Read More » BY SUSAN J. PENNER Long-term care administrators are familiar with monitoring their budgets, and they soon learn from experience that some sources
Read More » BY RICHARD L. PECK, EDITOR-IN-CHIEFEver get the feeling that you've been spinning your wheels professionally, that your career has bogged down in
Read More » BY ROBIN A. BLEIER, RN, CLC, LHCRM This article is based on a presentation at the 17th Annual NADONA/LTC conference, Orlando, Florida,
Read More » BY ALAN E. SCHABES, ESQ. "...and, furthermore, I don't want to see your face in my office until the research report is finished!"The door slammed
Read More » BY TOBI SCHWARTZ-CASSELL An increase in interest in the wellness
Read More » BY JAMES J. RIEMENSCHNEIDER, LNHA, MBA, AND L. PRENTICE THOMPSON Now is an
Read More » BY ELIZABETH P. FUSS, RN, MS, CIC As an infection control nurse, I know that residents of LTC facilities would make any infection control
Read More » BY DOUGLAS J. EDWARDS, ASSISTANT EDITORProcter & Gamble recently announced that Ivory soap floats because it was designed to-its buoyancy was not the
Read More » BY RIC HENRY, CPHRM, CNHA, FACHCA "Gone fishing"-these words should be posted on the doors of many plaintiffs' attorneys across the country. For
Read More » BY STEVEN ELDER An integrated security-response system combines safety systems into a single entity. It is essentially a network of networks,
Read More » BY MARIAN DEUTSCHMAN, PHD When you ask nursing home staff about their jobs and ideas for improvement, what do you hear? A few years ago I visited
Read More » BY BRIAN GARAVAGLIA, PHD Many individuals are admitted to acute, subacute, and long-term care facilities each year suffering from a depression that
Read More » BY KATHLEEN K. BROGAN, MSN, MSHED, RN, AND ANNA MARSHALICK, MSN, RN To address the extreme nursing shortages that exist today and are predicted for
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