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May 17, 2016 | Jim Rubadue
It’s conference season and I recently had the opportunity to attend the Ohio Health Care Association’s (OHCA) annual conference. And even though my travel schedule has me ingratiating myself with the...
April 5, 2016 | Jim Rubadue
You may be surprised to find out that we’ve had a couple of unique holidays recently – Black Forest Cake Day, Manatee Appreciation Day, and Crayola Crayon Day – who knew?! But at the top of my...
March 24, 2016 | Jim Rubadue
How do you feel about change? Bill Murray’s character in the movie “Groundhog Day,” stuck as he was in an endlessly repeating day, eventually comes to appreciate that “Anything different is good.” At...
November 12, 2015 | Jim Rubadue
In football, overtime is a bonus for fans and elevates the excitement to another level. For long-term care and senior living communities, overtime can be a useful tool in covering shifts, or it can...
September 4, 2015 | Jim Rubadue
In the American workforce an important generational shuffle is taking place right under our noses.
Of course, generational shuffles happen all the time as one generation starts thinking about...
May 21, 2015 | Jim Rubadue
In thinking about what to write about in this blog post I searched -- fruitlessly, as it turns out -- for alternative expressions of the centuries-old idiom, "you can't see the forest for the trees."...
March 26, 2015 | Jim Rubadue
This is a very exciting week for me because we are recognizing this year’s top schedulers. With over 100 nominations, all with compelling reasons to be honored, this was no easy task. It actually...
March 5, 2015 | Jim Rubadue
Take a look at your staff schedule. Go ahead, I’ll wait...
Unless you are extraordinarily lucky, that schedule very likely has holes, open shifts that you have not yet been able to fill. No reason to...
February 10, 2015 | Jim Rubadue
If I were to tell you that call-offs cost you money and complicate staff scheduling for senior care facilities, you would be perfectly justified in responding, “Thank you, Captain Obvious, for that...
February 5, 2015 | Jim Rubadue
Late last year, USA Today reported on a recent Zogby Analytics survey analyzing Millennials and their use of Mobile Devices. The study made some very interesting discoveries:
December 11, 2014 | Jim Rubadue
Are you aware of the changes to the Five Star Quality Rating system that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced? The rating system will now focus on improving the...
October 2, 2014 | Jim Rubadue
MatrixCare really nailed it when they picked the tagline for their recent user’s conference, Directions, in New Orleans last week. “Let the Good Times Roll” is a great way to describe an event that...