September 01, 2017

I’m a wound care nurse new to long-term care, and I want to develop a skin care team. Whom should I consider for team members?

Q: Serving as interim president (after the death of NAHC President Val J. Halamandaris) what are your goals moving forward?

With the help of customer relationship management tools, providers and sales reps can manage their referrals, improve census and track missed opportunities

Swisslog Healthcare has acquired West Coast medication management company Talyst. Starting in 2018, the companies will begin integrating their pharmacy systems to address a large customer base in North...

If they hadn’t known well in advance it would be that small, providers probably wouldn’t have been so gracious about a mere 1% increase in Medicare reimbursements from the Centers for Medicare...

Minimum Data Set coordinators serve vital functions in today’s skilled nursing facilities — their ability to dig deep is so critical that one software executive likens it to navigating the Andromeda...

Global investment firm KKR will buy PharMerica Corporation in a $1.4 billion deal, the companies announced in August.

Low wages and a lack of respect for direct care workers are putting the long-term care industry on a dangerous path to worker shortages, a professor warned recently.

A few years ago, the United Auto Workers eyed the Packard Proving Grounds in Shelby Township, MI, north of Detroit, as the potential site for a community center. Given the property’s history and...

Here’s a hypothetical for you. Let’s say you’re a busy nurse in a long-term care setting, and your supervisor wanders up and says, “Mrs. Jacobs in Room 203 really wants a cup of...