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A state-by-state comparison of pay-rate disparities between agency nurses and their full-time counterparts is feeding the fury that disgruntled long-term care operators and other providers have felt during the pandemic.

Nursing home advocates are doubling down on their push to get hospitals that discharge so many patients to skilled nursing facilities to vaccinate those they’re transfering.

A series of significant regulatory changes are expected to hit skilled nursing over the course of 2023, but experts are also warning providers not to lose sight of some smaller but still important changes coming into play as early as Jan. 1.

Potential pay cut relief that addresses some physician and therapist concerns is tucked into a 4,000-page proposed 2023 spending bill announced Monday by members of Congress.

A new search tool to help individuals find information when choosing a long-term care facility fails for the same reason as most of its predecessors, a top nursing home advocate said.

One key thing for facility operators to remember when planning to increase space, equipment and programming for seniors is to not call the target audience seniors.

Municipal or private, large or small, old or new, users of the tennis center or recreation, gym or aquatic center (or all three in one) want a place to shower, sit in a sauna, shave, change into athletic gear or at the least store coats and keys and purses and phones.

Photo Courtesy of DynaDome High utility bills, difficult terrain, vulnerable building materials, lack of flexibility…all of these are reasons

GaWreg Poynor's videoboard story is an example of wins all around when an organization upgrades its facility sound, lighting and scoreboards. Poynor, the athletic director and head football coach at Seminole High School in Seminole, Texas, worked with local businesses who approached him about the benefits of digital video scoreboards at the school's 5,000-capacity Wigwam Stadium and 2,000-seat Lelan Caffey Court gymnasium.

Technology affects every aspect of our lives, at work and play, and for the recreation industry, both work and play simultaneously. For everything from audio and lighting systems to aquatic center water quality equipment to software that streamlines office work, advances in the past two decades have helped managers, operators and organizations work smarter and save money in their quest to provide health and wellness to their communities.