CNA training serves as a crucial entry point into health care, combining flexible education options with practical skills to prepare and retain compassionate, competent caregivers. Ideally, training ...

If we want to create nursing homes where staff thrive—and residents receive the quality care they deserve—we must start by rebuilding our orientation and training processes. It’s not enough to hire ...

Prime Care Technologies, a leading provider of cloud-based IT solutions and data analytics for the senior care industry, is ...

AHCA/NCAL helps shape and execute federally-funded research across the country that will deliver solutions to our members.

Resident transportation is a growing concern in long term care, nursing, and assisted living facilities. Here’s how to improve safety, reduce risks, and protect residents and staff from harm. As this ...

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With the so-called silver tsunami of aging baby boomers well on its way, long term care operators have no choice but to adapt to this new generation of customers—if they haven’t already. One of the ...

Enhanced barrier precautions (EBP) are part of life in long term and post-acute care, but recent updates to the State Operations Manual (SOM) suggest this is a good time for a fresh look at EBP and ...

The word crisis can evoke scary thoughts of hurricanes, floods, and wildfires, all of which ravaged parts of the United States recently and forced many nursing homes into emergency mode. However, ...

The American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) honored the 2024 National Quality Award recipients in April during a special award ceremony at the Quality Summit ...

According to the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF), music therapy is “the systematic use of music, within a developing relationship between patient and therapist to restore, maintain, ...

For itself, Families for Better Care says that it’s “a nonprofit citizen advocacy group dedicated to creating public awareness of the conditions in our nation’s nursing homes and other long term care ...