Earlier this month a committee of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released The National Imperative...

This is the third in a series of articles exploring the importance of setting and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) in...

There is much talk in the industry about how senior care can expect little help from the government. But can legislators really turn a...

As with so many other things in our society, the COVID pandemic has impacted the senior care industry and prompted changes that had only...

Despite the high employee turnover that ravages the senior care industry, there are still many professionals who have been in the...

The staffing shortage at all levels of senior care is not going away overnight. We are saddled with it for a while. As most of us know,...

This is a short blog post, but it is a meaningful one. Something we all need to take a hard look at as we evaluate the future of SNFs and...

A previous blog post on this site talked about the post-acute care market, and how to earn back the business, but there is more to that...

As if life is not hard enough for skilled nursing facilities, we’re starting to see another industry trend that is pulling residents away...

According to a recent article in Skilled Nursing News, about 420,000 nursing home workers have departed the industry since the beginning...

After reviewing census as a KPI in last week’s blog, it is reasonable to revisit the ways that SNF’s can start rebuilding census....

The US population of people over the age of 75 is expected to almost double in the next twenty years, and one in four Americans will be...

CareWork Looks at KPIs: Census This is the second in a series of articles exploring the importance of setting and monitoring key...

Historically, skilled nursing and senior care operators have taken a conservative approach toward driving digital transformation within...

CareWork Looks at KPIs: Labor This is the first in a series of articles exploring the importance of setting and monitoring key...

Long-term care is a tough business. The clientele is mostly older, quite often living on a fixed income, and their ouch factor for price...

On the last day of February, McKnights Long-Term Care News reported on the latest round of enforcement measures for skilled nursing...

Why CareWork Matters Data: An Idea That’s Time Has Come We all know the reality. The slice of the population that will need services in a...

In nationwide research founded by Harvard, the National Healthcare Safety Network severely underreported Federal data for more than...

Like so many other areas of our society, the pandemic threw a microscope on the senior care industry, most notably on the labor shortage...