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We’ve mentioned before in posts on this blog that it is nice to find that others think as we do. We want to quickly review a couple of things that came out in the industry that buttress what we’ve already written about in these pages. Still on the Topic of Government Funding for Senior Care…

This blog post started with a browse through the morning e-mail, but by the end, it was the genuine excitement of validation. The validation we speak of is that technology in your senior facility can help you make better decisions, but it can also help you keep and grow the best employees and attract more…

As with so many other things in our society, the COVID pandemic has impacted the senior care industry and prompted changes that had only been vaguely considered previously. We all know the stats. An article earlier this year in the New York Times cited more than 181,000 deaths of residents and employees at SNFs. That…

What’s that? What did you say? This sector of health care is on the skids! There is no future in this business. Well, stand aside for a different opinion. It is Fourth of July Weekend. It is a time to be patriotic and also a time for optimism. There may be many changes facing the…

Earlier this month a committee of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality Report. You can download it for free. The Takeaways The download is 605 pages, so it will be difficult to find anyone that has read it yet. iAdvance Senior Care was…

This is the third in a series of articles exploring the importance of setting and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) in long-term care and senior living organizations. Throughout the series, we explore KPIs specific to skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care, independent living, and CCRCs in labor, census, finance, procurement, clinical, and quality. We discuss…

There is much talk in the industry about how senior care can expect little help from the government. But can legislators really turn a blind eye to senior care in the US? Maybe not. Not when voters, including business owners and corporate America, start to feel the pressure a burgeoning senior population has on the…

Despite the high employee turnover that ravages the senior care industry, there are still many professionals who have been in the industry for some time, often decades. They should be lauded. Leaders with a good deal of seniority and experience bring unmatched institutional knowledge and expertise. Indeed, with their determination, many of them brought their…

The staffing shortage at all levels of senior care is not going away overnight. We are saddled with it for a while. As most of us know, it was a problem before the pandemic. COVID just managed to throw a spotlight on it and make it worse, as it did to so many other aspects…

This is a short blog post, but it is a meaningful one. Something we all need to take a hard look at as we evaluate the future of SNFs and their role in senior care and how paying attention to the data can help you prosper. What’s Happening to the SNF Investment Community? We are…