The Nursing Home Podcast
The Nursing Home Podcast
Shmuel Septimus

The Nursing Home Podcast

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The nursing home administrator's best friend on the internet.

Being an LNHA has never been easy.
Covid has only made it even more challenging.

Let's do this together🎗.

This is where we interview and meet the leaders, innovators, and trendsetters in the nursing home industry. This is your go-to resource to gain practical solutions to everyday problems facing nursing home administrators.

Questions/Comments? Email me - shmuel@snfmarketing.com
The DOs and DON'Ts of Nursing Home Marketing
27 November 2023

The DOs and DON'Ts of Nursing Home Marketing

Timestamps(00:00:02) Introduction (00:01:01) Healthcare Risk Management Experience (00:02:18) Fair Housing Act Explanation (00:08:15) Prohibition of Disability Discrimination (00:15:57) Understanding Essential Requirements (00:23:15) Rules Around Common Accommodations (00:29:42) Risks & Fair Housing Marketing (00:34:55) Legalities for Assisted Living Services (00:40:17) FSA & Housing...
Staffing; The Biggest Pain Point for Nursing Homes
16 July 2023

Staffing; The Biggest Pain Point for Nursing Homes

Sara Well spent 12 years as a critical care trauma nurse on the acute side. She watched again and again as her facility’s money was put into much less pressing issues than staffing and saw how it impacted not just care and quality outcomes but overall revenue.She saw how archaic many of the systems in place for staffing were, and with her tech background realized that this comprehensive issue was...
Innovative Solutions to the Staffing Shortage in Healthcare
19 March 2023

Innovative Solutions to the Staffing Shortage in Healthcare

After returning from military service, Eric Alvarez got his start in academia before moving to healthcare and delving into startups. It was this time working with students that led him to the idea of Grapefruit Health. By the year 2026 healthcare will be short by 3.2 million healthcare workers. Eric states that many of the current solutions for this problem greatly reduce performance and output...
Retain Your Nursing Home Staff
26 February 2023

Retain Your Nursing Home Staff

Erica has had 30 years of experience as a nursing home administrator and specializes in regulatory compliance. Her nonprofit senior living campus is so excellent at staffing retention that they have managed successfully to never bring in outside agencies. In today's senior care facilities, where administrators constantly struggle to keep staff from leaving, this is an incredible achievement....
Home Care VS Nursing Home
25 January 2023

Home Care VS Nursing Home

Sam Gopinathan only got started in his field after the 2008 recession when he was forced to leave his job as a mechanical engineer. But Sam didn’t get into his current field by chance. After a life-changing experience of helping to provide relief to a community devastated by a natural disaster, he learned that establishing a connection is a fundamental foundation of caring for others. He decided...
Start Your Own Healthcare Business
29 December 2022

Start Your Own Healthcare Business

Lindsay Mclaughlin is an expert multitasker! Managing to juggle running a successful full-time venture, teaching others to do the same, and being a working mom, she wears many hats.Her high-poweredness can be seen in the fact that she recorded this episode with us only a few days after the birth of her new baby! Despite going into nursing school, Lindsay knew for a long time that she wanted to be...
Authentic Selling in Healthcare
05 December 2022

Authentic Selling in Healthcare

Nebras Hayek’s incredible career in marketing throughout multiple industries is the result of her high-powered mindset and can-do attitude. Though she has worked in a number of interesting places, Nebras got into healthcare marketing partly through the connections she made while hosting events for various healthcare related groups.In addition to her intensive day job, she is also an active...
Take Full Ownership of Your Recruitment
24 October 2022

Take Full Ownership of Your Recruitment

Having served as assistant administrator at a small facility with extensive experience in the senior care industry, Avi Richman understands the extreme challenges facilities face these days in staffingThere is a constant fight over employees and many states cap admissions when a facility is only operating at very low levels of staff. Many facilities attempt to address the problem of staffing...
Hire and Retain the Best CNAs
03 October 2022

Hire and Retain the Best CNAs

During her research into health disparities at John Hopkins, Athena witnessed the difficulties that aspiring healthcare workers who were underprivileged and financially insecure had in starting their career. Single parents who were already working paycheck to paycheck could not afford to put themself through a CNA training program. There is also the issue of overcomplication and outdatedness...
Dementia Education; Why
25 July 2022

Dementia Education; Why

As a clinical psychologist with over twelve years of experience in the senior living space, Dr. Jennifer Stelter has a lot of experience with dementia. Dr. Jennifer is critical of the idea that pharmacological methods are the only way to address mental health conditions and she strives to provide knowledge of non-pharmacological tools and coping skills that can be used firstly. Together with her...