The skilled nursing facility (SNF) and assisted living community achieved an important victory June 30 when President Bush signed an Iraq war Read More »
Shakespeare's famous question implied that a name was incidental to the essence of something—“a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” But Read More »
Vital Signs Monitoring Life Systems' Rosie® II Vital Signs Monitoring System captures Sp02, E-Temp, blood pressure, and pulse rate in 45 seconds. Read More »
What one tool can make residents, nurses, administrators, payers, and regulators happier and more effective all at the same time? From the name of Read More »
Most everyone is familiar with the “Red Hat Society,” a society of women “of a certain age” who get together to embrace the present and future with Read More »
Quality of care deficiencies can be devastating in any nursing home: devastating to the resident, who can suffer a decline in health status or even Read More »
With our planet melting like an ice sculpture abandoned in a mall parking lot, everything's going “green” these days. ”Green” means different things Read More »
The Long-Term Living Web site serves daily news focused on the LTC field. The news feed covers reports and studies, governance, views and news from Read More »
When you've been operating a nursing home for 100 years, can you change your offerings and environment sufficiently to appeal to the new senior care Read More »
Skilled nursing facilities that pay physicians for medical director services may be at risk for violating Section 1877 of the Social Security Act; Read More »
You may have noticed that our most recent online poll is asking for your preferences—specifically, going forward, would you like the information you Read More »
It’s been a running joke in long-term care circles for many years how most Americans assume that Medicare covers nursing homes and other such Read More »
The demand for images and information has grown well beyond the traditional PACS workstation. In the endless pursuit of anytime - anywhere images Read More »
Do you believe a unionized workforce would benefit an LTC business?-I am starting to think that nursing homes would benefit from being unionized Read More »
-I don't think any of the compare systems work because they are based on data submitted and not every facility codes the same, and not every Read More »
Signed into law by Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry in June, The Sex Offenders Long-Term Care Facility Bill has generated a fair amount of buzz from LTC Read More »
In June, the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) brought nearly 400 industry representatives to Read More »
Dear Reader: Welcome to Long-Term Living's Product Showcase. Useful and innovative products are regularly being made available to professionals in Read More »
The business of being an employer is hitting the nursing home industry hard. This is especially true in the areas of staffing and government Read More »
Between the rising prices of prescription drugs and the increasingly complex Medicare reimbursement process, senior healthcare facilities are facing Read More »
With rising costs and the threat of reduced reimbursements looming, now is the time to evaluate how your facility's supply expenses are managed. To Read More »
Beginning on July 1, Medicare beneficiaries in 10 metropolitan areas (Charlotte, North Carolina; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Dallas-Fort Read More »
The Long-Term Living Web site serves daily news focused on the LTC field. The news feed covers reports and studies, governance, views and news from Read More »
Those of you who visit our Web site, https://www.iadvanceseniorcare.com—and I hope it's a growing number of you—may have noticed our reader polls: simple Read More »
Editor's Note: Readers with access to the Internet and, more specifically, to our Web site, https://www.iadvanceseniorcare.com, may have noticed a rather Read More »
