Regulations

So here I am in Florida. I started having pain in my upper right gastric region. Over the course of three days it was getting really intense. Could my primary care provider squeeze me in? Nope.  So...

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Regulation is always clear and easy to comprehend.  Laughable, right? What often happens when new rules and regulations are proposed or finalized is that there is a flurry of activity following, from...

As many states have moved to tighten regulations in lockstep with the federal focus on nursing home reform, providers are often sitting alongside worker and patient advocates whose voices have more traditionally...

State officials are pursuing new state regulations to protect nursing home residents from scenarios such as the one that contributed to 15 resident deaths after they evacuated to a warehouse during Hurricane...

Maybe it comes from working in the highly regulated long-term care profession for so many years, or maybe it’s just from being a subservient Canadian, but I’ve become quite a prolific rule follower....

I know we have a lot on our minds these days. Little brain teasers like, how do we possibly replace the estimated 362,000 employees the long-term care profession has lost during the pandemic? A recent...

It falls to individual skilled nursing facilities and caregiving teams to create clear and coordinated expectations of nursing homes.

There’s a pit of desperation of sorts that normally envelops most journalists around holiday periods. With few folks working in government or corporate offices, important decisions and developments sometimes...

I asked all the leadership at New Choice Nursing and Rehabilitation Center to bring me their department-specific resident assessment tools. They were to leave them on my desk by 5 p.m. When I returned...