I thank medical student Nir Lipsman for his insightful and touching article on the hospital's
Family Room. 1 This room is usually spoken of, if at all, in hushed and sometimes reverent …

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Twenty years ago, an editorial was penned to highlight workforce issues impacting care in
the nursing home (NH). 1 The focus was on physician practice but clearly relevant to other …

In long-term care, some concepts have taken on the nature of a self-evident truthdso-called
because to true believers, they require no evidence to justify their merit. One such example …

In one corner, we've got consumers and union reps angry that local ratios for skilled nursing
facilities haven't been enacted or enforced yet. Forget that state officials have backed off the …

I originally wanted to write to you to correct a misstatement made in an editorial in the
March/April edition of JAMDA on staffing ratios, 1 and I will get to that in a moment. However …

Hospital. A little over a year ago, we found ourselves extremely shortstaffed, utilizing large
numbers of outside agency personnel to fill the gaps, asking our own staff to work many …

In the last five years I have learned much about long-term care, as it has affected my
personal life as well as my professional life. One thing has remained constant: my belief that …

THERE IS something going on in our hospitals. I can't quite put my finger on it but there is a
phrase that comes to mind: have we'lost the plot'? Maybe it's not that. Maybe it is:'We can't do …

Marginalization of physicians in the nursing home threatens the overall care of increasingly
frail nursing home residents who have medically complex illnesses. The authors propose …