Tickets are moving and hotel rooms are filling up for the McKnight’s Women of Distinction Awards extravaganza May 4 in Chicago. The program has become an elite gathering place for networking, ...
Anyone who toils in or around the long-term care sector knows that its practitioners typically embody a lot of heart. Wednesday night, that notion was blown out of the water.
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries who participated in a program using Vitalic showed significant improvement in depression and anxiety symptoms as well as lower rates of hospital admission and ...
Older adults who experienced financial insecurity were more likely to develop lower memory function and accelerated memory decline compared to those who did not, according to a March study published ...
Mary Ousley, a long-time nurse leader and quality champion in skilled nursing, was honored Thursday as the 2026 McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards Career Achievement honoree. Read her acceptance speech.
Combining casual drinking with casual conversation, pub crawls and St. Patrick’s Day go together like corned beef and cabbage. A recent “crawl” organized by Good Samaritan Society – Sioux Falls ...
A Michigan-based physician group whose main clientele were nursing home patients must face trial on False Claims allegations after a judge rejected the group’s arguments that its alleged billing ...
A capacity crowd embraced 33 McKnight’s Pinnacle Award winners in a warm and moving ceremony Wednesday night that honored some of the long-term care sector’s best leaders and most devoted team members ...
More than 40% of older adults experienced more than one impairment in instrumental activities of living six months after elective noncardiac surgery, according to a March study published in JAMA ...
Reintroducing Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) hierarchical condition categories (HCCs) into the Medicare Advantage (MA) risk-adjusted payment model was linked to improved care access ...
In skilled nursing, fall prevention receives structured attention. Mobility often does not. That imbalance should give us pause. The pattern is familiar.
A geriatrician-led falls prevention clinic service, including the option of a physiotherapist, generated high returns on investment — demonstrating potential viability as an economically attractive ...