January/February 2022

Read the digital edition of the January/February 2022 print issue here. Select excerpts from this month’s magazine can also be found below.

Q: Since pressure injuries occur in all healthcare settings caring for vulnerable adults, are they a designated public health issue? 

More than 200,000 workers have left nursing homes during the pandemic. What are the legal risks of related worker shortages?

In September 2021, Bob Lane became the president and CEO of the American College of Health Care Administrators even though he had planned to retire after 34 years in aging services.

A judge has ruled that an Iowa nursing home worker who resigned her job after refusing to wear a face mask at work to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is not entitled to receive unemployment compensation...

Nursing home operators have not only admitted an increasingly frail number of patients, they’ve also hired a correspondingly larger pool of clinicians to treat them, according to a decade-long research...

The Massachusetts Attorney General has appealed a state judge’s decision to drop criminal charges against two former top officials of a Massachusetts veterans home where 76 residents died during a major...

With the severe staff shortage, we want to give our workers some gifts. I have a small budget but want to start doing things like a New Year’s gift, and Valentine’s and Nurses Day recognition of some...

Eating at nighttime — as many shift nurses do — can increase glucose levels, while eating only during daytime hours may have a preventative effect, according to a trial backed by the National Institutes...

Staffing pressures and Medicaid reimbursement issues being felt around the nation pushed several Nebraska nursing homes to their ends in late 2021.