Gary Tetz

I wanted so badly to keep going, to devote everything I had to my mission that day, and I felt like a complete failure when I turned around.

After witnessing a musical performance that left me amazed and stupefied, I went home with a flash of insight and a long-sought analogy — facility administrators are the blues drummers of long-term care.

Whenever I pass one of those cinderblock mini-storage places with double-loaded rows of strictly functional corridors, I think the same thing: “That looks like some nursing homes I’ve been...

Just so you know, I’ve been pulling two, 12-hour shifts of living per day for the past 53 years, and I’m exhausted. I work when I sleep and I sleep when I work, which means I don’t do...

How widespread is the adoption of uniforms within the long-term care profession? According to a rigorous and scientific phone survey I conducted of the one nursing home administrator who would take my...

Better aesthetics and easier navigation are hallmarks of the latest McKnight’s Long-Term Care website. A redesigned version of the industry’s most popular web destination was unveiled Monday.

With the unveiling of our new mcknights.com website, we’re hoping to make the way you obtain industry knowledge a more enjoyable experience.

That’s a fashionable phrase we hear a lot these days—”life well lived.” A long-term care provider I hold in high esteem has even used it as a marketing tagline. I happen to know this...

The holy grail of long-term care hiring would have to be the ability to divine in advance who will end up becoming a personnel liability and workplace nightmare. Most providers try to do that with a combination...