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Not Just Part of the Job
September 17, 2009 10:24 PM by Maureen Salera

Most people figure that work-related injuries are just part of the job for nurses. With all that lifting, turning, repositioning and transferring that nurses do, injuries abound. In fact, a report on the American Nurses Association Web site indicates Read More...

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Report Outlines How Health Reform Will Help Seniors
September 4, 2009 2:54 PM by Heather Simons

A recent report at HealthReform.gov outlines exactly how health insurance reform, if passed, would strengthen health care for seniors and long-term care residents. "America's Seniors and Health Insurance Reform: Protecting Coverage and Strengthening Medicare" Read More...

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Penn State program aims to cut health care costs
June 10, 2009 9:44 AM by Maureen Salera

A new Penn State program is attempting to give front line health care employees tools to improve efficiencies and cut waste, according to an article on the Penn State Newswire. For example, clarifying medical orders, not having the right supplies and Read More...

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Guest Blog: "It's Time for Transparency in Long-Term Care"
June 9, 2009 10:52 AM by Liz Rosto

The following is a guest blog by Anthony Cirillo: The Senate Finance Committee has released a report entitled Transforming the Health Care Delivery System: Proposals to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Health Care Costs. A portion of the report addresses Read More...

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Hospice in long-term care
June 5, 2009 1:31 PM by Maureen Salera

A little more than a year ago, I wrote an article about integrating palliative care into nursing homes. My research and my sources seemed to agree that end-of-life care wasn't anywhere near where it needed to be in long-term care. In fact, in some long-term Read More...

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Does an Economic Downturn = Better Service?
November 24, 2008 1:02 PM by Liz Rosto

Spending a good amount of time in our nation's retail outlets this past weekend, I noticed an interesting trend: with stores vying for consumer dollars, they are really stepping up their customer service efforts in order to increase sales. From the supermarket Read More...

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Presidential Candidates Health Care Plans
April 11, 2008 10:18 AM by Adkins-Ali Carrie

I recently heard a comment that when the Clintons tried to reform health care, it had an unforseen negative impact on nursing. Hospitals, my source noted, were laying off nurses because they did not think they were going to have enough money to pay them Read More...

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The Value of an Apology
February 1, 2008 10:49 AM by Maureen McAndrews

Over the summer I made a major purchase at a home improvement retailer. To make a long story short, the vendor: lost my order data due to a computer power failure, delayed product delivery, ordered the wrong size product, forgot to collect payment from Read More...

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More on "Water for Elephants" & Nursing Homes
November 19, 2007 5:25 PM by Maureen McAndrews

In my last post on Sara Gruen's book " Water for Elephants ," I discussed the book's main character, 93-year-old Jacob, who lives in a long-term care facility. In the chapter where Jacob recounts his family's decision to send him to the facility, he says Read More...

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The Good News and the Not-So-Good...
November 15, 2007 9:34 AM by Liz Rosto

The State of Seniors Housing 2007, an annual publication produced by The American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA), the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) and the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing and Care Read More...

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Tax-Evading Medicaid Providers
November 14, 2007 8:18 AM by Adkins-Ali Carrie

The Associated Press reported this morning that a Senate panel is looking to collect unpaid taxes from more than 30,000 Medicaid providers who receive federal payments for their services despite owing at least $1 billion in back taxes. AP specifically Read More...

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LTC South of the Border
October 15, 2007 3:57 PM by Liz Rosto

I recently read this article from USA Today about the growing number of Americans going to Mexico for long-term care because the services cost so much less. While the quality of care sounds questionable in many of these facilities, it got me thinking Read More...

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