Cures for What Ails the Nursing Shortage
Building a positive culture is key to the retention of staff in nursing homes.
Feb
2023
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Dr. Kenneth Scott
Feb
2023
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Dr. Kenneth Scott Advises on How Nursing Homes Can Increase Accountability
In his most recent Forbes article, Dr. Kenneth Scott, CEO and founder of SilverSage Management Services, focuses on three things nursing homes can do now to make improvements and increase accountability.
Jan
2023
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Factors Families Should Focus on When Choosing a Nursing Home
By Dr. Kenneth Scott, DO, CMD, CEO SilverSage Management Services One of the most stressful—and many times painful—mile markers in life arrives when the decision is made to place a parent in a nursing home. Some of the individual mental burden may be assuaged if...
Nov
2022
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Training Nursing Homes to Adapt to Having a Doctor on Staff
When I speak to nursing home teams about having their own full-time physician on staff, visions of Dr. McDreamy inevitably dance in their heads. Indeed, when I mention the fictional TV character played by Patrick Dempsey on Grey’s Anatomy, staff members often smile...
Sep
2022
30
Training Doctors in Nursing Home Protocol Can Be a Challenge
Teaching doctors to really be effective in the post-acute and long-term care setting isn’t just a simple matter of placing them within the four walls of a nursing facility. Getting doctors to fully understand their role and how to best serve in these settings can...
Sep
2022
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Families Want Doctors at the Bedside
Doctors provide reassurance from doubt, better understanding of situations, and numerous added benefits.
Aug
2022
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SilverSage’s Dr. Kenneth Scott Jr. Accepted Into Forbes Business Council
Forbes Business Council is an invitation-only community for successful business owners and leaders.
Jul
2022
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Let’s Make Placing Doctors in Nursing Homes a Full-Time Pursuit
There’s a dogma that pervades most large companies, including every large hospital institution that I have ever worked for. In essence, this overriding belief is manifest in an arrogance that flatly maintains, “We do things the way we do things because we have...
Jul
2022
29
What Is the Value of Having a Full-Time Doctor in a Nursing Home?
By Dr. Kenneth Scott, DO, CMD, CEO SilverSage Management Services. When it comes to diagnosing the placement of full-time physicians in nursing homes, there are two primary pain points: The first is getting nursing home administrations to understand the inherent...
