June 2022

“So how should we replace our skilled care beds?”

I recently asked operators to tell me about  true employee losses they suffered from the mass employee exits that industry leaders predicted would occur when staff mandate deadlines kicked in.

Given all the attention the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has streamed on skilled nursing lately, the agency will surely expect more from providers on the behavioral front, too.

Technology and improved practices are merging to create new and successful strategies for preventing and treating chronic wounds.

As the pandemic wanes, providers are seeing more clearly the need to prevent and prepare for everyday and emergent infectious threats.

Skilled nursing operators felt the financial vise tightening late this spring, as concerns about the sustainability amid a rate cut and more regulation collided with broader economic worries.

Another firm is stepping up with services to provide long-term care employees with access to part of their wages before payday.

They are vital eyes and ears in any nursing home, either large or small, making them among the most trusted confidants of everyone from floor nurses to administrators. Experts share here how providers...

An Iowa man and his friends are making sure some skilled nursing facility workers always have a taste of home while working each weekend.

Some might say that Sarah Schumann, director of operations for Brookside Inn, was destined to go into healthcare.