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BLOOMFIELD, NE — Like many of its skilled nursing neighbors in the Cornhusker State, Good Samaritan Society-Bloomfield is teetering between fulfilling its vital community role with special small-town flourishes and [...]

The ongoing nursing shortage is also limiting the pool of wound care nurses. “Nurses who are certified to care for wounds and ostomies are in short supply, at Kaiser Permanente [...]

Two “critically important” issues will determine long-term care providers’ near-term fate over the next month and a half, the nation’s top nursing home leader said Tuesday. One is to achieve [...]

Employment woes in the general marketplace are having the opposite effect on long-term care. Other sectors' losses are LTC's gain, and leaders in this labor-starved industry are making no apologies. [...]

Facing unprecedented change and uncertainty, many providers are doing a fair amount of soul-searching these days. As perhaps no time in history, operators are pondering what the future holds for [...]

Extensive research has shown healthcare to be an anomaly in an era of high unemployment. While most industries are turning away applicants by the thousands, healthcare--and especially long-term care--has plenty [...]

I'd like to share with you a story of our future. AAHSA recently completed our second scenario-planning exercise. It is designed to help us see what the next 10 years [...]

We insomniacs know sleep is important. We've read all the studies, usually late at night when we can't sleep. We're very aware that insomnia is shortening our lives, and that [...]

Other than the fact that it beats the alternative, there isn't too much to be said for getting old. As most assisted living operators have discovered, here's the reality most [...]

We can find many reasons to rejoice in a new year's arrival. For some, it's simply a chance to say good riddance to the headaches and assorted annoyances that the [...]