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Don’t you just love a deficiency-free survey?  I had the survey team exit today and they didn’t cite anything.  What a great feeling!  That doesn’t mean that deficiencies do not exist.  It simply means that we managed the survey in such a way that anything that did come up, we had an answer for, had QA’d, or had addressed in some other fashion.  I’ve had my share of cleaning up bad surveys for others,...

This is a true account of what I found at one of the facilities I took over a couple of years ago.  It demonstrates that one problem can be so much bigger than any of us realize. “A Salmonella outbreak?  How did that happen?” I asked.  (Read below to find out.) I had recently taken over a small facility in a rural Southern town.  The facility had problems and the staff was pretty good at running off administrators and...

Tell me how your morning was today.  Did you jump out of bed before dawn raring to go?  Did you have a power shower?  Did you brush your teeth like a champ?  Did you peel rubber out of the driveway because you couldn’t wait to get to work? No?    Well, not many people do.  Many of us in this industry get up feeling like it’s just another day.  Most of us peel rubber out of the driveway because we’re running...

I have noticed a trend in some of our states.  As a way to save state funds, many of our states are pushing the Home & Comunity Services Programs.  This service falls under the Medicaid waiver program and is unheard of for many nursing home administrators … until they start seeing their referrals drop. Here’s an example - in Tennessee their Medicaid program is called TennCare.  TennCare’s longterm care CHOICES...

I’m always amazed when someone tells me they want to become a nursing home administrator.  Especially knowing what I know now.  When I started out, I simply thought that it was a respectable career and that it was all financially oriented.  Boy, was I wrong!  I had no idea that you’re involved in every area of running a skilled nursing facility and have to make decisions you’ve never even thought about before. I have...