May 1, 2019

A recent study by Ziegler showed that 81% of long-term care facilities find that internal marketing efforts produce higher quality leads than national referral services.

More on the chief operating officer of Life Care Centers of America.

A replica train passenger car is giving nursing home residents the excitement of a countryside ride, without leaving the premises.

Given an increasingly ambulatory population, the presence of water and the kind of warm and moist environment that invites bacteria to breed, risk is inherent in skilled nursing bathing areas.

Common spaces in long-term care communities have received renewed interest in recent years, being viewed in some design circles as the “heart,” or core, of senior communities. This holds true even...

So there I sat in a mind-boggling PDPM training recently, with one recurring thought: You long-term care people are incredibly smart.

If you’ve toiled around the skilled nursing field over the last year, you might have noticed there’s this PDPM thing that seems to be grabbing a lot of attention.

Spring is in the air. So, too, is provider angst about Medicare’s looming Patient-Driven Payment Model, better known as PDPM.

Ordinarily, adding a hair salon to an eldercare community isn’t a big deal, a side deal at best. But at Vienna Nursing & Rehabilitation Center of Lodi, CA, it’s a centerpiece.

Not in the current market for a loan? So what! Owner-operators should be in a constant state of readiness to borrow money — whether it’s needed for short-term cash or long-term capital projects.