Pamela Tabar
Pamela Tabar was editor-in-chief of I Advance Senior Care from 2013-2018. She has worked as a writer and editor for healthcare business media since 1998, including as News Editor of Healthcare Informatics. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Kent State University and a master's degree in English from the University of York, England.
CCRCs: Navigating rough financial waters
So, you built it, and they haven’t come (yet). How will you parlay your continuing care retirement community (CCRC) investments? Financial experts and long-term care CEOs provide tips on how to keep your CCRC in the black. Read More » Enclara expands, rebrands
One of the country's largest palliative care pharmacy companies changes its name to reflect its new acquisitions. Read More » Leadership upheaval continues at ONC
This week’s departure of the top two executives at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology are the latest in a series of leadership turnovers at ONC. What will it mean for IT initiatives for quality improvement and transitions of care? Read More » How to integrate primary care as a service line in CCRCs
The next hot service line for continuing care retirement communities could be one that has traditionally been outside the long-term care settings—primary care. Read More » Suitcase season: Packed for learning
Keeping up with the industry means planes, trains and automobiles. Read More » PHI gets $2M for home care aide training
The Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute gets an infusion of funding for its direct-care workforce training programs. Read More » AMDA invests in young adult LTC as numbers climb
One sector of the long-term care resident population is surging lately—and it’s not the “silver tsunami.” Read More » CMS to overhaul 5-star nursing home rating system
The passage of the IMPACT Act gives CMS new funding to re-do the Nursing Home Compare ratings process. Read More » OPTIMA Award: My trip to relearn memory care
My two-day trip to upstate Massachusetts to visit a community instrumental in the 2014 OPTIMA Award changed my view of memory care programs and their ability to improve the lives of residents with dementia. Read More » OPTIMA 2014: Morning pledge [VIDEO]
Benchmark Senior Living, the winner of the 2014 Long-Term Living OPTIMA Award, uses set routines in the morning to get its memory care residents off to a good start each day. Read More » An engaged journey: Complete coverage of the 2014 OPTIMA Award winner
Coverage of Long-Term Living's 2014 OPTIMA Award winner—including the main article, companion articles, photos, video and a blog—are gathered here for your convenience. Read More » OPTIMA Award: Reading series keeps residents with dementia learning
Keeping reading skills honed helps those with dementia stay focused throughout the day. Benchmark Senior Living, the 2014 winner of Long-Term Living's OPTIMA Award, uses hundreds of reading booklets to keep residents' minds engaged in learning new things. Read More » Atty Gen. Holder to resign from DOJ
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. has announced plans to resign from the Department of Justice later this year. Read More » Elizabeth Tracy, RN, wins McHugh leadership award
This year's winner of the LeadingAge McHugh Award serves as a model for nursing leadership and resident-centered initiatives. Read More » OPTIMA Award: Six dimensions of engagement
Benchmark Senior Living, the 2014 winner of Long-Tem Living's OPTIMA Award, uses six dimensions of engagement in its memory care program to stimulate different parts of the brain and keep residents with dementia involved and focused. Read More » 2014 OPTIMA Award: An engaged journey
This year’s winner of the Long-Term Living OPTIMA Award, Benchmark Senior Living, has taken dementia care programming far beyond reminiscing, brain-games and once-a-day-activities. Here's the story of how its award-winning programming got started, and how the lives of residents can be changed when engagement happens all day long instead of just during "activity hour." Read More » CMS eases back into recovery audits
After months of a pause mode due to backlogs in the appeals process, CMS has reinstated the recovery audit contractor (RAC) review process. Read More » NCOA, CDC gear up for flu season
Key agencies prepare materials and awareness campaigns for this year's influenza season. Read More » CMS: Medicaid spending surges in 2014; Medicare awaits 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of the Actuary has released new figures concerning healthcare spending trends. Read More » OIG busts multiple home health agencies, DME companies for fraud
The August dog days of summer proved to be too hot for several scheming durable medical equipment and home health service providers. Read More » NYT scrutinizes Medicare 5-star rating system
Medicare’s five-star rating system for skilled nursing facilities is being called out again—this time on the front page of the New York Times. Read More » Designing tomorrow’s senior environments
A roomful of experts in senior living environments, architecture and interior design, editors from Long-Term Living, Environments for Aging and Healthcare Design, and Vendome Group’s conference planners gathered in Baltimore with a daunting task: choosing the very best submitted educational sessions for the 2015 Environments for Aging Conference. If your site or chain is mulling over a new construction or renovation project, the conference could be your #1 learning opportunity. Read More » Country’s first substance abuse progam for SNF residents opens in NY
New York senior healthcare chain is opening the country’s first substance abuse program integrated with the skilled nursing setting. Read More » NorthStar to acquire Griffin-American for $4B
NorthStar Realty wins the battle to acquire the nimble Griffin-American, adding a portfolio of properties in the United States and Britain. Read More » Project Survival 101: Managing refurbs and expansions
Are remodels or construction upheavals in your future? Intelligent project planning can get your refurbs done without bulldozing your residents’ lives. [Includes photo gallery] Read More » Great (CCRC) expectations
Consumer demands and the promise of millions of incoming baby boomers have triggered expansions and new construction in senior living communities. But how many of them will go bankrupt before the boomers get there? Read More » It’s a date: ICD-10 starts in 2015
Health and Human Services has chosen the date for ICD-10, ending previous delays. Are your caregivers and your electronic health record system ready for the change? Read More » Ascension forms national senior health ministry
The country’s largest Catholic non-profit restructures its senior services under a single national organization. Read More » AOD acquires Stratis, adds home care
Two software services companies join forces to offer end-to-end software solutions and to include home care in the data continuum. Read More » 