February 2020

Joe M. Franco Jr., LeadingAge, Vice President, Grassroots

After spending 54 years with the same Alabama skilled nursing facility, clinical services director Jewell Garrett turned the page on the latest chapter in her life.

Experts agree critical medication mistakes occur during transitions from acute to post-acute care. Many are associated with multiple diagnoses and miscommunicated medication orders.

Nursing homes welcomed 2020 in all-too- familiar territory: A looming regulatory and reimbursement climate of uncertainty.

Greystone refinances Long Island skilled nursing facility for $71.3 million; Berkadia secures over $57 million in SNF financings; Lancaster Pollard helps SNF obtain permanent financing

As landmark program begins, stakeholders now ask the question: What will the data show?

A smartphone app in development purports to use speech analysis to diagnose dementia.  That’s fantastic news, but it ignores one of my fundamental beliefs: that smartphone use is dementia, on a...

Reader Poll: Who is the most underappreciated segment of your facility?

Throughout history, the cards have been stacked against various figures. So don’t get to feeling too singular when you sense the long-term care blues coming over you.

Imagine if a person stopped you on the street and said this: “I want to rob your house. The government says I can borrow your house keys, so hand them over.” Forking over those keys would be just about...