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Abusive Nursing Home Employees: Lots of Blame to Go Around

Have you heard about the nursing home employees charged with the intentional drugging of residents at Kern Valley Nursing Home, in California? That’s Read More »

New Law Makes Prosecution of Nursing Home Cases More Difficult

Unknown to most, in the later days of his term, former-president George W. Bush signed off on a new law that effectively clamps down on the publics' Read More »

Your residents’ meal satisfaction

Are your residents satisfied with the facility’s prepared meals? Comment on their feedback.           Comments:   -We actually just had a Read More »

Waiting for a Diagnosis

This past week I went back to the orthopedic surgeon for the results of the CAT scan of my shoulders. I thought this would be a rather routine Read More »

Stimulating HIT- Morning in America?

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been living with the ARRA (the “Stimulus Act- we’d best get used to another new acronym.) There are plenty of good Read More »

Who’s going to EFA.09?

Are you planning on attending Environments for Aging 2009 on March 29 in Boston? Read More »

LTL reader has strong words for care home owners

A reader named Lola recently brought up a zealous—if not unrestrained—personal commentary on how she views the current state of long-term care by Read More »

Getting Acquainted, Then and Now

Within the first few days of coming to this facility I must have met almost all of the staff. I remember that I was pretty down because of the move Read More »

The Hunks of Greenspring

No, your eyes haven’t deceived you. These pictures are genuine. The Hunks of Greenspring are the real deal—full of class, in the buff and, hopefully, Read More »

Your response to community involvement

As part of your resident activity offerings, does your facility offer consistent local community involvement? Please explain those activities. Read More »

Dealing with Injury

Despite being very careful, I managed to get injured. With shoulders weakened by quadriplegia, two nurses’ aides assist me with transfers. I can Read More »

Your response to President Obama’s stimulus

Will President Obama’s stimulus and other policies take pressure off Medicaid reimbursement?                     Comments:   - Our Read More »

Health IT Gone Mainstream? – Who Woulda Thunk?

I look at the news swirling around me about healthcare information technology being one of the BIG 5 PRIORITIES for our new President with a mix of Read More »

How Intel fosters senior independence

He is as ubiquitous at long-term care (LTC) conferences as anyone, and yet he is not a provider or management consultant. He is not a “techie,” but Read More »

LTL Online

Readers say… the Long-Term Living Web site is featuring a new poll every Monday. Here are the results from a recent poll: Is your facility satisfied Read More »

Enough is enough!

Larry Minnix, President and CEO of AAHSA What is being launched tomorrow is poorly planned, prematurely implemented and ham-handedly rolled out.” Read More »

Nursing challengessupport association

“Do we really need another nursing association?” This question is raised occasionally as the number of long-term care (LTC) nursing associations Read More »

Six strategies for survival

Recently Ziegler Capital Markets issued six strategies for senior living providers facing economic difficulties due to their faltering marketplace. Read More »

Leading by recognizing generational differences

As nurse executives strive to lead others, they realize the key to success is achieving the level of leadership that inspires employees to Read More »

Going hard-edged

At Long-Term Living we've always prided ourselves on our topicality. Our articles are always pegged to the immediate administrative needs of our Read More »

Palm Garden of Ocala 2008 OPTIMA Award Ceremony

OPTIMA Award presentations tend to be memorable occasions, and the ceremony last fall at Palm Garden of Ocala was no exception. A sizable number of Read More »

How to keep the nursing in long-term care facilities

It's no secret that the United States has a nursing shortage, one that promises to grow to alarming proportions—particularly in this country's Read More »

Counterbalancing MedPAC’s funding cuts

Contending that America's skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are raking in the dough and generating fat profits from Medicare patients, the Medicare Read More »

Product Focus

Data Warehousing PowerCube, from MDI Achieve, is a robust data warehousing program designed to allow users to “slice and dice” data to manage their Read More »

The Ice Cometh

On Tuesday, January 27, a double barreled winter storm moved through southeastern Ohio. Several inches of snow were followed by freezing rain Read More »

Retirement strategies for small-facility operators

Senior living owners and operators contend with a variety of financial issues on a daily basis—everything from meeting monthly payroll to managing Read More »

Your view on health information technology

Do you believe government-funded health information technology (HIT) would increase productivity at your facility?   Comments:   - Advances in Read More »

How Are Aides Trained Today?

I would like to sit in on a nurse aide training session to see what they are being taught today. Since aides are no longer being trained here, I know Read More »

The Big Chill of 2009

Southeastern Ohio’s weather was extremely cold last week.  Night temperatures reached below zero several days in a row.  Friday, January 16 was our Read More »

Your desire for further education

If I were to further my education/training as a long-term care administrator, and had appropriate financial support, I would like to: Read More »