April 18, 2013 Gina LaVecchia Ragone
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Congratulations to the second of our five 2013 Leaders of Tomorrow award winners: Roberto Muñiz, MPA, LNHA, FACHCA, president and CEO of The Francis E. Parker Memorial Home, Piscataway, N.J. Read how he turned adult day care service into a brand new business avenue.
April 16, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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The "culture city" of New Orleans served as the perfect venue for discussing culture change in elder-care building design at the 2013 Environments for Aging conference.
April 16, 2013 Rebecca McNeil
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Learning management systems can improve training for employees and ease the documentation headaches for administrators during accreditation site visits by automating the training schedules and tracking course completion.
April 11, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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Continuing care trends are increasingly involving hospice within the whole care campus, instead of tucking away the hospice in a stand-alone building in a proverbial corner of finality.
April 3, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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While some skilled nursing facilities are being sold off due to budget cuts, the Ensign Group seems to be on a buying spree.
April 2, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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Senior Editor Pamela Tabar talks with Ruta Kadonoff, vice president of quality and regulatory affairs for the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), about quality in long-term care—and why being able to measure it will be important for business.
March 27, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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It’s not exactly a building boom yet, but things are looking brighter for the senior housing market, according to ALFA’s new senior living provider rankings.
March 25, 2013 Eleanor Feldman Barbera, PhD
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When long-term care residents perceive control over what is generally a highly structured new environment, it helps them cope with stressors, reduces their depression and anxiety and increases their satisfaction with care.
March 22, 2013 Bob Gatty
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Legislation that would roll back caps on therapy services to seniors in skilled nursing centers has been introduced in both the House and Senate and is being applauded by an industry reeling from one payment reduction after another.
March 20, 2013 Patricia Sheehan, Editor-in-Chief
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States have refined survey systems and are demanding more disclosure for assisted living, according to the Assisted Living State Regulatory Review, released Wednesday by The National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL).
March 20, 2013 Sandra Hoban, Managing Editor
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Licensed nurse retention seems to curb readmissions, and vice-versa.
March 19, 2013 Patricia Sheehan, Editor-in-Chief
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A new report from the Alzheimer's Association shows that while deaths from other major diseases, such as heart disease, HIV/AIDS and stroke continue to experience significant declines, Alzheimer's deaths continue to rise—increasing 68 percent from 2000-2010.
