Resources

Court Rules that Residents of Assisted Living Facilities Do Not Have a Private Cause of Action for a Facility’s Alleged Breach of their Statutory Bill of Rights The licensing and regulatory authority over a facility that houses the senior care community depends upon how the facility is licensed, e.g., as […]

Part 1 in the series “Employee Job Performance in the Senior Living Community Workplace Environment” What Topics Should Be Covered in an Employee Handbook? Employee handbooks provide written notification of a company’s expectations for discipline and productivity in the workplace and serve as a guide to the company’s benefits, policies, […]

The World Health Organization has recently identified the COVID-19 Coronavirus as a pandemic.  Many senior care facilities (assisted living, skilled nursing, independent living, sub-acute rehabilitation facilities) find themselves in unchartered territory as it relates to their obligations to residents and their staff, not to mention potential exposure, both from the […]

Regulation of languages in an increasingly multicultural workplace remains a sensitive and challenging issue for healthcare providers in 2018. As the modern workforce in the United States becomes increasingly culturally diverse, an increasing proportion of employees in the healthcare field speak in languages other than English, particularly in senior living […]