Category: Census

Moving an aging parent into a skilled nursing center or an assisted living community is one of the toughest choices an adult child can make. While they will want the…

Although many skilled nursing facilities face the challenge of increasing and maintaining their census, rural facilities are against some fairly steep odds in doing so. They also face other unique…

Senior care isn’t what it used to be. Long gone are the majority of institutionalized, hospital-like, brick and mortar buildings housing anywhere from 100 to 300 or more elderly residents.…

Scope of the Problem Owners, administrators and their marketing teams are losing sleep at night due to the devastating post-pandemic effects on their census. On top of that, there are…

For many years, I was part of a census-development team for skilled nursing facilities around Ohio. And what a team we were! Administrators, nurses, social workers and me, on the…

Studies have reported that around one-third of seniors residing in long-term care facilities are admitted to the hospital at least once a year. At least half of these admissions could…