Wound care nurses from three facilities share how the use of an electronic point-of-care documentation system is transforming their jobs and enabling them to achieve better outcomes. Read More »
Job’s Way is Kirby Pines Retirement Community's award-winning Alzheimer’s and dementia residence—winner of more than six national and international awards. The unique circular facility is designed to minimize confusion and frustration as residents move about during their daily activities. Read More »
Through Vermont’s Health Information Exchange, this nonprofit senior housing provider can identify demographic factors that may be influencing variable health outcomes between its locations. Read More »
Golden Living transitioned its corporate-wide information technology from multiple, disparate silos into a unified, easily accessed and intuitive new platform. Here’s how they did it. Read More »
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged six former top executives of the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation with securities fraud. Read More »
First, you must understand the nature of reputations and how they develop. Negative reputations can happen catastrophically or gradually over an extended period of time. Read More »
Kelvin Washington faces decades in prison for receiving payments for the referral of dialysis patients to a local ambulance transport service. Read More »
On May 22, an EF-5 tornado carved its way through Joplin, Mo., striking the Greenbriar nursing home with a direct hit. Months later, the affected share their stories. Read More »
Mary M. Harroun, MS, LNHA, demonstrates a leg lift The answer is yes. It might not be possible for all of your residents but a significant number Read More »
There was little rest for weary LTC professionals this year. Just when providers thought they could breathe a sigh of relief for having survived Read More »
Bob Gatty Now that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its final and revised rule for accountable care organizations Read More »
First Year Seminar photos courtesy of UMBC New Media Studio At the LeadingAge conference in October, Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel spoke about Read More »
Gary Tetz There's a danger in being called the best of something. Because once it happens, you actually have to live up to it. My town, the Read More »
Editor's note: Last month, Long-Term Living readers were treated to five of Richard Peck's predictions for the industry in the coming years 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 »
Photo by St. Leonard staff The Franciscan Wellness Center fitness room at St. Leonard Franciscan Living Community in Centerville, Ohio A community Read More »
Smart Bed System The Touch-free Life Care System from BAM Labs transforms a conventional bed into a smart bed. The TLC System empowers caregivers Read More »
A few years ago, many assisted living facility (ALF) owners had the idea that with the looming baby boomer retirement wave about to hit “if you Read More »
In response to this past October’s 11.1 percent Medicare funding reduction coupled with almost 6 percent in state Medicaid cuts, Ohio nursing homes Read More »
Twice as many states require certified nurse aides to exceed federally mandated training requirements than they require home health aides, according Read More »
The flu bug, that is. This week (December 4-10) has been declared National Influenza Vaccination Week by the Centers for Disease Control and Read More »
In a joint statement Tuesday, several LTC provider associations urged Congress to extend the therapy cap exceptions process for medically necessary Read More »
A Monday morning fire at the Laurelton Village Care Center in Brick, N.J., did not seriously injure any residents or staff because of the facility’s Read More »
Geriatric mental health specialists in Rhode Island are working on a new pilot project that puts an interesting twist on telemedicine: improving Read More »
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