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There is growing evidence that SNF-at-home will become a prominent piece of the senior care market in the coming years. We reported this in June in a blog post, Success of SNF-at-Home Will Hinge on the Quality of the Data. This was confirmed by a recent discussion at a Skilled Nursing News RETHINK event and…

It’s easy to talk gloom and doom about the future of the senior living and long-term care industry, especially skilled nursing facilities. So it was a breath of fresh air to read an article last week in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News on projections for the industry by Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of the American…

A few weeks ago, we discussed on these pages how to implement an employee mentoring program. It is with good reason, too. The caregiver turnover rate in senior care for 2020 was 65.2%, and that was at the beginning of the pandemic. It is likely much higher now, given the labor shortage at all levels…

We all knew it was coming, and it came. New CMS rules will affect the Medicare five-star ratings of 10% to 16% of SNFs, according to an article in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News. Nursing and administrator turnover are now considered in the rating process. This comes when the industry is already in a staffing crisis,…

We all know that the senior care industry, especially skilled nursing facilities, is under pressure from all sides. One of those pressures is the employee pool. The other is tight budgets, caused mainly by the decline in census in senior care. There are ways, however, that the leadership at SNFs, ALs, ILs and CCRCs can…

Everyone dies. There are no exceptions. But as an assisted living or skilled nursing facility, this happens more often. At these times, hospice can be a help. Here are some things that senior care professionals should know about hospice. A Resident on Hospice Can Continue on in Your Facility This especially pertains to memory care…

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…