Heal CEO Scott Vertrees discusses how Heal's strategy of bringing primary care into the homes of seniors is improving outcomes and attracting more patients to the platform.
President Biden’s State of the Union address calls for the most comprehensive nursing home industry reforms in nearly a quarter century. Staffing and other key operational areas are targeted, along with revised payment incentives. But no new payment provisions were included.
The workforce crisis in long-term care is not a new phenomenon, but one that has been decades in the making. Regulations make it difficult for facilities to stay efficient without investing in resources to manage the overload of daily administrative work. Long-term staffing plans are certainly worth considering, but ultimately freeing up staff from administrative tasks and introducing operational efficiencies that allow them to spend more time with patients is in everyone’s best interest – the f...
Listen to this podcast to learn about the current state of pharmaceutical management of COVID in PALTC facilities. Hear about the challenges and opportunities seen both nationally and statewide with the delivery of monoclonal antibodies in the facilities as we work to combat the omicron variant. We'll analyze novel treatments for COVID, address how facilities can access medications and review the current state of vaccinations and boosters.
It’s still the very early days of hospital-at-home, Travis Messina, CEO and founder of Contessa, told Liza Berger, editor of McKnight’s Home Care. It’s the “top of the first inning,” he said during the Home Care 100 Leadership Conference in Scottsdale, AZ. Contessa is operating in eight of Amedisys’ markets and aims to be in 15 by the end of 2022, he said.
Low and late payments to home care firms from Medicare Advantage plans are leading to an “untenable situation,” Paul Kusserow, CEO and chairman of Amedisys, told McKnight’s Home Care Editor Liza Berger during the Home Care 100 Leadership Conference this week.
Bruce Greenstein, chief innovation and technology officer for LHC Group, sat down with McKnight's Editor Liza Berger at the Home Care 100 conference in Scottsdale, AZ, this week.The industry needs to have a "wake-up call" when it comes to Medicare Advantage partnerships, he told Berger. Also, the company is building out its hospital-at-home platform, which the firm plans to roll out later this year.
Stephanie Parks, chief development officer of Reliant Rehabilitaion, discusses the 15% Medicare Part B Therapy Assistant cut implemented on Jan. 1, 2022. In this podcast, Parks and McKnight's Long-Term Care News executive editor James Berklan discuss the financial impact of this cut.
As we start 2022, ongoing concerns remain around occupancy, staffing and price-to-value. The industry looks to three new concepts for answers: Providing the right care at the right time, rethinking staff and resource management and leveraging technology to demonstrate results and identify unmet needs. In this McKnight’s Senior Living Market Leaders Podcast, Lois Bowers talks with Sentrics CEO Darin LeGrange about the importance of these issues and the role technology will play in turning the tid...
This episode explores how skilled nursing facilities can leverage their partners and vendors to offset these challenges with innovative solutions that can drive better care and outcomes.
In this McKnight's Newsmakers Podcast, Diane Eastabrook rounds out the special series Lonely at Home with a conversation with Linda Fried, M.D., Dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The geriatrician explains why social isolation and loneliness have become a global health crisis, and how care providers can intervene.
In this McKnight's Newsmakers Podcast, Jake Rothstein, founder and CEO of UpsideHom, talks to Diane Eastabrook from McKnight's Home Care Daily Pulse about how his company is rethinking senior living and home care. UpsideHom provides high-amenity apartments to seniors with add-on services. Exclusively in Florida, Rothstein hopes to take UpSideHom nationwide and change the way we think about aging in place.
Christine Gallo, CEO of Gallo Medical Company, discusses the use of robotics in long-term care for UV light disinfection, telehealth and patient/resident transport with McKnight’s Senior Living Editor Lois Bowers.
Today's sellers have plenty of options. Here, Laca Wong-Hammond, managing director and head of mergers and acquisitions for Lument, and Brandon Gill, the firm's associate director for seniors' housing and healthcare in the midwest, share insights on how to work around lingering COVID-19 challenges, seize opportunity and find the right buyer. Looking to hold onto a property but need help? Wong-Hammond and Gill also share strategies for that with McKnight's Long-Term Care News Senior Editor Kim Ma...
Alex Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Liberty SBF, provides a recap of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Fall Conference and discusses the state of the senior living market with McKnight’s Senior Living Editor Lois Bowers.
In this podcast, Daniel Reingold, M.S.W., J.D., president and CEO of RiverSpring Living, discusses why long-term care providers need to capitalize more often on the positive news about their profession and workplaces. Along with McKnight's Long-Term Care News Executive Editor James Berklan, he also explores the dangers of not using, and not pressing others to use, more suitable terminology to describe long-term care residents and workers.
Congenial long-term care luminary and sought-after consultant Larry Minnix, past president and CEO of LeadingAge, returns to the convention floor to reveal the most significant problems facing long-term care operators today. In this podcast, Minnix and McKnight's Long-Term Care News Executive Editor James Berklan also discuss what to do about the industry's challenges and the top lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Denise Boudreau-Scott, president of Drive, talks about the difference between culture and engagement, how senior living providers can foster a culture that people want to be a part of and that enables them to compete with other employers, and how culture can affect occupancy.
Barbara Speedling, quality of life specialist, talks about how senior living providers can create positive living environments for residents, what baby boomers will expect from senior living, and factors to consider when remodeling or constructing communities.
In this podcast, McKnight's Long-Term Care News Senior Editor Kimberly Marselas interviews Zach Shamberg, President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Health Care Association, live from the floor of the 2021 AHCA/NCAL convention and expo. They explore staffing challenges, how to lean on peers for support and inspiration, and the rough road ahead for providers.
In this podcast, McKnight's Long-Term Care News Executive Editor Kimberly Marselas interviews Brendan Williams, President and CEO of the New Hampshire Health Care Association, live from the floor of the 2021 AHCA/NCAL convention and expo. They discuss the stressful staffing environment and how to respond to being "at the mercy of contract nursing agencies and their exorbitant costs.
