Senior living providers can learn lessons about safety and security from their colleagues in skilled nursing facilities.
Post-lockdowns, regulators cast an eye toward security, preparedness weak spots
By
John Hall
Dec 02, 2022
For much of 2022, lockdowns and other restrictions tamped down the usual resident security concerns in the nation’s long-term care facilities. Still, workforce shortages meant fewer vigilant eyes and...
New options emerge
By
John Hall
Dec 04, 2018
Resident security in senior living today bears no resemblance to what it was just a decade ago. Locks and alarms — the stuff that long have defined resident security — always will be relevant. But...
Focus on briefs: Information technology
Feb 01, 2023
New study touts info tech access and training as ‘transformative,’ EHR study shows value of staff ‘computer time,’ but only to a point, FBI continues to warn healthcare workers of ongoing IT scam
A golden era of innovation in wound care is approaching
By
John Hall
Aug 01, 2022
Technology, improved practices are merging to create new, successful strategies for preventing, treating chronic wounds.
Focus On briefs: Skin integrity
Aug 01, 2022
Perceptive Solutions integrates wound solution with MatrixCare EHR software,; Immunotherapy could delay wound healing, practitioner advises; Vizient gives limb shield innovation nod
FocusOn Briefs: Medication Management
Apr 01, 2021
Following the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use approval of the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccines, Kaiser Family Foundation analyses have emerged showing which states and cities are in need...
Focus On: Tech innovation driven by data rather than devices
By
John Hall
Feb 13, 2020
New products get the oohs and aahs in senior living, but the real secret sauce is lurking behind the scenes.