Long-term care leaders return to basics, employ innovation to grow direct care staff
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Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
Facing the reality that most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics, senior living and skilled nursing leaders both are going back to the basics and seizing on innovation to expand their direct...
AHCA/NCAL’s Parkinson honors ‘real heroes’ in his own words
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 25, 2024
AHCA/NCAL President and CEO Mark Parkinson received the 2024 McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards Career Achievement Award on Thursday. Read his acceptance speech here.
McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards showcase inspirational leaders at inaugural live event
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 08, 2023
More than 200 aging services professionals, business partners and supporters celebrated a who’s-who of industry veterans Tuesday during the inaugural McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards ceremony.
Long-term care pharmacies forced to borrow to buy resident drugs, close as intermediaries tighten grip...
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 08, 2024
Long-term care resident access to prescription drugs is being squeezed as several market and regulatory factors have combined to increase the power that pharmacy benefit managers have over the specialized...
Good Samaritan Society to exit 15 states, trim capacity by 30 percent
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 12, 2023
Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, the country’s second-largest not-for-profit senior living and care organization, plans to exit 15 states and reduce its resident and patient count by approximately...
Supreme Court spars over case that could limit power of federal agencies
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 18, 2024
Some Supreme Court justices on Wednesday signaled their willingness to give courts more discretion in interpreting “ambiguous” federal statutes rather than leaving that work to the agencies tasked...