Grow staff, impact the perceptions of long-term care and deliver on the promise of culture change. A comprehensive approach to staff development is inherently linked to organizational development. Read More »
Long-Term Living contributor Eli Pick’s account of a life in long-term care offers valuable insights and lessons learned from failures and successes along the way. "This was very difficult for me in the beginning," he writes. Read More »
To experience just one of the many challenges a LTC resident experiences on a daily basis can be sobering and eye-opening. And, it just might make you reconsider your facility's approach to resident care. Read More »
For senior living communities, social media is a “brand” new world adding a new dimension to the marketing mix and a “brave” new world for communities to share their stories. Read More »
New standards build upon regulations published earlier this year that set industry-wide standards for how health providers use electronic systems to determine a patient’s eligibility for health coverage and check on the status of a health claim. 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 »
Although this seems to be a quirky and light-hearted story, there are business and resident safety consequences associated with Santa Monica’s decision to ticket the Sunrise Senior Living van out of sight. 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 »
Throughout winter, it is essential for LTC facilities and senior housing properties to ensure that the area around heating equipment is free and clear of all combustible material. Read More »
Providers contend final rule will shorten the time employees may learn about union membership before an election, grant the NLRB latitude to decide election issues and limit an employer’s ability to appeal initial election hearing findings. 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 »
Congratulations to Tyrone Stanley, who was awarded the Cynthia Steele Caring Hands Award by the Maryland Chapter of the National Gerontological Nursing Association. Read More »
HealthBridge Management has locked out union members from West River Health Care Center in Milford because the company was frustrated by 10 months of labor negations with no progress made toward an agreement. 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 »
I’ve been thinking lately about the role direct-care workers could play in new care coordination models. With the right training, this could be a real opportunity to improve the quality of jobs for direct-care workers. Read More »
In all my time living in nursing homes an aide has not been disciplined in my presence—that is, until last week, when the nurse aide students began their clinicals. 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
