by Megan Altmyer | Nov 10, 2021 | Newsletter
Recently, several colleagues and I attended a national assisted living conference in Washington, DC. It was the first in-person meeting of such size (approximately 2,000 people) that any of us had attended in 2 years, due to the gathering restrictions caused by the...
by Megan Altmyer | Oct 12, 2021 | Newsletter
Last year, as the COVID pandemic was unfolding, our country was also witnessing in our city’s streets the pent-up responses to decades of racial injustices. As I absorbed the many formal and informal protests from near and far, it dawned on me that our company,...
by Megan Altmyer | Aug 10, 2021 | Newsletter
From the Desk of the CEO Rod Burkett I was recently reading an article by Marshall Goldsmith, a leading author in the field of leadership. He was summarizing a 50-year-old research project, in which a Stanford University psychologist studied children’s choices in...
by Megan Altmyer | Jul 13, 2021 | Newsletter
From the Desk of the CEO Rod Burkett I was recently asked if I saw anything positive coming from COVID-19. My initial reply was no, there was no positive direct impact from the disease itself, but there were some positive benefits from how the pandemic made us think...
by Megan Altmyer | Jun 8, 2021 | Newsletter
I recently read in the New England Journal of Medicine and in other respected health care journals, that since mid-December 2020, when the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines were implemented, the incidence of positive COVID cases in our nation’s nursing homes and...
by Megan Altmyer | May 11, 2021 | Newsletter
Once again, I thought I would be writing my first column in over a year without having to reference anything COVID related, but not just yet. Since all our communities have finished their 3rd on-site COVID vaccination clinics in late March or early April, I felt it...
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