Willis North America’s Senior Living Practice Group will work with ALFA members to reduce costs, improve their operating risk profiles and better meet their employee benefit and insurance objectives. Read More »
A recent series of unfortunate headlines, throughout both the United States and abroad, has shown the painful, and even deadly, results of resident aggression manifested into physical form. Read More »
Don’t panic. Be polite and respectful; remember this is an official visit. And please, for your sake, remember the old adage: ”If they ask you the time, tell them the time; don’t tell them how to build a watch.” Read More »
An 80-year-old nursing home resident, who suffered from dementia, died of head injuries on February 14 days after an alleged fight with another resident. Read More »
From a safety and risk perspective, the kitchen provides us with an immediate opportunity to develop a workforce that is “cultured” to prevent potential hazards and losses. Deviation from procedures is usually when an incident occurs. Read More »
Preparedness and safety are not to be ignored. They determine how successfully an adverse event may be mitigated. And in long-term care communities, disaster training and drills are required. Read More »
The Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities is requesting a state law that would put potential lawsuits against nursing homes before review panels, which could help to eliminate unnecessary litigation. Read More »
Let it be known that even regulators see the point of a homelike environment. At least the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) understands. Read More »
One of the first stories I tackled when joining Long-Term Living three years ago was a Q&A interview with patient care advocate Wes Bledsoe, who at Read More »
Nurses in today's LTC and assisted living settings act in a variety of roles, both clinical and nonclinical. Nurses assist with or administer Read More »
In LTC litigation, plaintiffs’ attorneys routinely assert claims for punitive damages, largely based on statutory language such as that contained in Read More »
Despite the rapid advancement of genetic science over the past several decades, concerns eventually arose nationwide that Americans were not taking Read More »
Paula Span, of the popular The New Old Age blog, wrote last week about an elderly couple who roused all kinds of turmoil at their assisted living Read More »
To build on what is becoming a focused blog series, starting with our article in the June 2011 issue of Long-Term Living and last month’s blog on Read More »
As an addendum to our recent article titled “Nursing care quality and the False Claims Act” in the June issue of Long-Term Living, the Office of Read More »
Flooding, tornados, hurricanes, fires and terrorism—we live in volatile times in a volatile world. As I traveled last week to the annual National Read More »
The importance of the long-term care (LTC) mission and this hyperintensive regulatory environment requires constant vigilance and hard work. As Read More »
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) enforces equal employment opportunity laws. This most prominently includes Executive Read More »
Part one of a two-part series on data security measures Whether or not it was ever intended, healthcare providers these days are responsible for Read More »
Diane Carter, RN, MSN, CS The MDS 3.0 demands that you focus on resident voice and choice. But the MDS, Care Area Assessments (CAAs), and care Read More »
Failure to maintain compliance with applicable rules and regulations can be costly to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). The Office of Inspector Read More »
As noted in the September 2010 issue of Long-Term Living (“Old law-New problem,” p. 32), the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division has Read More »
It's been 10 years since the Drug Enforcement Administration briefly mentioned in a Federal Register notice that long-term care nurses are not Read More »
Do you have any clue as to how many of your employees “tweet”? Do you know how many employees have a Facebook page? Who among your employees is Read More »
The courts are becoming cluttered with wage and hour lawsuits. Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) cases are emerging as a leader in employment Read More »
Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) have attracted the attention of the federal government and two parallel investigations of the Read More »
At a glance… This article will examine how the administrator of record could be disciplined for negative outcomes of decisions made by managers who Read More »
New terms are being bantered about in healthcare. One is the “accountable care organization.” The idea is that a group of providers—primary care Read More »
