McKnight's Long-Term Care News

09/08/2026

Day 1 | Sept 15: AI in senior living and care: What’s next?

Sponsored by SafelyYou

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping senior living and care, moving beyond singular solutions to become a foundational element of care strategy. Join us for a thought leadership panel exploring the future of AI integration across the continuum of care.

Panelists will examine how AI addresses practical leadership challenges—from navigating data overload to ensuring seamless platform integration—while improving staff experience and driving future innovation. Join speakers Travis Gleinig, Chief Information Officer at United Methodist Communities, Laura Hastings, Senior Director of Clinical Consulting at SafelyYou, and Dr. Christian A. Mason, President and CEO at Senior Housing Managers, LLC, along with moderator Lois Bowers, MA Bowers, Editor at McKnight's Senior Living.

Attendees will learn how to:

- Cut through the noise and turn data into actionable intelligence

- Build a sustainable technology roadmap that supports residents and staff

- Differentiate their organizations in an evolving market

Ready for what’s next? Secure your spot here: https://bit.ly/45BF9ui

09/07/2026

Day 2 | Sept 16: Views from the C-suite

David Hope, VP of HR, Kisco Senior Living sits down with Helen Adeyinka Adeosun, Chief Strategy Officer,Activated Insights and moderator Lois Bowers, MA, Editor, McKnight's Senior Living for an unscripted conversation on leadership, AI, and hiring—the kind of candid discussion most executives only have in private.

Attendees will learn about:

- Growing into AI: Letting tech handle busywork so associates focus on residents

- The frontline realities leadership often misses—and what truly matters to staff

- Why Kisco built custom workforce tech in-house instead of buying

- Using AI to preserve vital caregiver knowledge across shift changes

- The #1 trait most missing in leadership rooms today

Sponsored by Activated Insights

Secure your spot here: https://bit.ly/45BF9ui

09/04/2026

Day 2 | Sept 16: How home care providers can use AI tools to bolster compliance and prevent audits

The federal government has focused squarely on home care when it comes to program integrity scrutiny and enforcement. What can well-meaning Medicare and Medicaid home health, hospice, and personal care providers do to prevent audits and investigations?

AI offers an opportunity to scrub EHRs for inconsistencies, shore up documentation, and provide internal checks. Join speakers Alicia Bloom, COO, Empassion Health and Jason E. Bring, Partner, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, along with moderator Liza Berger, Editor, McKnight's Home Care, as they dig deep into best practices to improve operations and keep surveyors at bay.

Attendees will learn:
- What constitutes a red flag to surveyors

- Ways providers can use AI to eliminate documentation errors

- Opportunities to use AI for internal audits and stress tests

Register here:

09/04/2026

Over 1.3M nursing facility residents experience a fall each year, but smart design can help. Learn how firm surfaces, proper seat heights, and smart frame designs play a crucial role in preventing falls in skilled nursing communities.

Check out what key features to look for in your facility's furniture design plan: https://bit.ly/4zXlEKt

Protect the safety of residents by prioritizing common and residential room furniture with features and designs that can help reduce the risk of falls—without sacrificing style or comfort.

09/03/2026

Prolonged pressure from sitting can restrict blood flow, causing necrosis and the development of pressure injuries, often within just 2 to 6 hours.

Join us on Sept. 17 at 1 pm ET as we translate pressure injury science into practical clinical decision-making. The session will provide a usable framework for evaluating the user and their seating needs, along with commonly used prevention strategies and the feasibility of each. Register now! https://bit.ly/4xINXuQ Kalogon

09/03/2026

Log in now: Prioritizing team workloads with a new long-term care framework is about to begin. In this session, we'll discuss a new framework that provides teams with personalized EHR views. See you soon! https://bit.ly/460i9Fw

09/02/2026

Join us on Sept. 3 at 1 pm ET! In today's long-term care environment, performance depends on connecting the dots across resident care, payer strategy, workforce ex*****on, revenue cycle, referrals, compliance, and analytics. Yet most reporting strategies treat these functions in isolation, leaving everyone with the same one-size-fits-all view into their priorities.

Clinical, leadership, and operational teams share one goal: improving patient care quality. In this session, we'll explore a new framework that provides teams with personalized EHR views—enabling shared intelligence while allowing each member to focus on the priorities and signals most relevant to their role. Register now! https://bit.ly/4hJxKjH

09/02/2026

Next-gen video security and access control are transforming resident safety and elopement prevention.

Discover how AI-enabled cameras create invisible safety perimeters, recognize high-risk residents, and automatically lock exits before elopements happen. Learn directly from providers who use cloud-managed video systems to protect residents and streamline compliance. Register today! https://bit.ly/4h7XtAD

Key Takeaways:

- How AI spatial detection outperforms traditional wander management

- Integrating visual platforms with access control to stop elopements

- Leveraging video audit trails to mitigate liability and survey risks

- Protecting resident dignity with "quiet" security perimeters

- Reducing false alarms and freeing up frontline staff

Sponsored by: Intrex

Speaker:
Janine Lehman, RN, RAC-CT, CLNC, Director of Clinical Services, Proactive LTC Consulting

08/31/2026

COVID-19 still poses a serious risk to nursing home residents, and getting the right treatment to the right resident in time isn’t always easy. This panel-based webinar presents findings from a quality improvement initiative conducted across Rhode Island nursing homes by Brown University Health, which identified the root causes of these gaps and co-designed four practical tools to help address them.

Join us Sept. 1 at 1 pm ET as expert panelists walk participants through the resources, share real-world implementation insights, and provide a roadmap for deploying these resources within long-term care settings. Register now: https://bit.ly/4f1qpdK Pfizer

Speakers:
- Yasin Abul MD, ScM, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Brown Geriatric Medicine Practice
- Rosa Baier, Lead, Long-Term Care Quality & Innovation Lab and Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Brown University School of Public Health
- Ed Davidson, Cofounder, Chairman, and Chief of Strategy, Insight Therapeutics, LLC
- Aman Nanda, Professor of Medicine, Brown University School of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
- Stefan Gravenstein, David S. Greer Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Director, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
- Barbara Resnick, Distinguished University Professor and Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology, University of Maryland School of Nursing

08/27/2026

Join us on Sept. 3 at 1 pm ET! In today’s long-term care environment, performance depends on connecting the dots across resident care, payer strategy, workforce ex*****on, revenue cycle, referrals, compliance, and analytics. Yet most reporting strategies treat these functions in isolation, leaving everyone with the same one-size-fits-all view into their priorities.

Clinical, leadership, and operational teams share one goal: improving patient care quality. In this session, we'll explore a new framework that provides teams with personalized EHR views—enabling shared intelligence while allowing each member to focus on the priorities and signals most relevant to their role. Register now! https://bit.ly/4hJxKjH