In this episode Angie Szumlinski, Director of Risk Management at HealthCap talks with Dr. Matthew Beacom, M.D. from the University of Nebraska and Heath Boddy, President and CEO at the Nebraska Health Care Association. Listen as they discuss the latest in vaccine mandates, boosters, and vaccine hesitancy in the senior living industry.

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Ep 24 Vaccine Mandates, Boosters, and Hesitancy

While many people who get COVID-19 recover within a few weeks, some will suffer from long-haul symptoms for many months. This syndrome has impacted millions more Americans long after their initial diagnosis. Angie Szumlinski, Director of Risk Management at HealthCap talks with Nicole Tweedie, a "long-hauler" about what it's been like living with post-COVID symptoms. Joining them Jana Hirschtick, a researcher from the University of Michigan, who has been studying COVID patients after their diagnoses.

Ep. 23 - COVID Long-Haulers

Beginning in 2016 the senior living industry began to see an increase in the frequency and severity of claims. When COVID began in 2020, it changed everything, making the trends more unpredictable. Will plaintiff attorneys turn a global pandemic into individual tort claims and what will be the outcome? We may not know for a long time.

Ep 22 Claims Trends & Analysis

Cara Drenth, Director of Underwriting at HealthCap talks with Scott Voss, President of Voss Insurance Services and original HealthCap agent. Listen as they talk about what COVID has been like for agencies and owners, how we've handled crises in the past, and what the future may hold for senior living facilities.

Ep 21 Scott Voss: A Partner from the Beginning

Humans are sexual beings from the time they are born until they die. How do you handle situations when residents become intimate?

Ep 20 Intimacy Between Residents

HealthCap CEO Peter Feeney and AHCA  President & CEO Mark Parkinson talk about the future of COVID, vaccines and variants, and what the senior living community might expect regarding census in the future.

Ep 19 Mark Parkinson April 2021

Peter Feeney, CEO of HealthCap and David Mathog, Senior Vice President National Healthcare Practice Leader at USI Insurance Services talk about the effects COVID-19 has had on clients from an agent's perspective.

Ep 18 David Mathog: An Agent's Perspective on COVID-19

In this podcast we discuss treating residents who have contracted COVID with monoclonal antibodies such as bamlanivimab and remdesivir. Where do these antibodies come from? Who can be treated with them? What if the resident has already been vaccinated? We have the answers to these questions and more!

Ep 17 Talking Monoclonal Antibodies with Chad Worz, PharmD and Chief Executive of ASCP

s began vaccination of their residents and staff on December 28. Listen as Peter and Angie speak with Shari Terry, Vetter's COO about their process and what worked well for them.

Ep 16 "Project Hug" Vetter's COVID Vaccination Clinic

Listen in as HealthCap CEO Peter Feeney talks with AHCA President and CEO Mark Parkinson about the challenges the senior living industry faced in 2020, and a look ahead at what 2021 brings us in regards to vaccines, federal funding, census, and liability protection.

Ep. 15 Mark Parkinson, AHCA NCAL

Join HealthCap Director of Risk Management Angie Szumlinski as she talks with Cynthia Coenen, Chief Clinical Officer for Vivage Senior Living in Colorado. Angie and Cynthia talk about best practices, documentation, and lessons learned during this pandemic.

Ep 14 A Conversation with Vivage Senior Living

HealthCap Risk Manager Cathy Hamblen interviews Tracie Murray, Administrator, and Bethany Murray, Assistant Administrator of Cedar Crest Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Sunnyvale, California. They walk us through the implementation and execution of their successful COVID plan that brought them through the outbreak to being declared COVID-free today.

Ep 13 - COVID Successes of Cedar Crest Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

We've been hearing the term "immunity" a lot in the news lately. But when talking about immunity, there's another kind that has nothing to do with antibodies. In today's podcast, Christina Nechiporchik and Marc Feeney discuss legal immunity, and how it affects the senior living industry.

Ep 12. What is Legal Immunity in the Time of COVID-19?

When an incident occurs, what do you do?  Are you just running around putting out fires? Listen as HealthCap Risk Managers Patti Sweet and Donna Long explain the Root Cause Analysis process and why you should be doing it in your facility.

Ep 11 Root Cause Analysis

It's no wonder coronavirus is all over the news. With the number of cases of coronavirus at over 20,000 in China, the number of cases in the U.S. has now risen to over 10. Many of us in the Senior Living Industry are thinking about our community and wondering what we would do it the virus came to our facility. Is the typical infection control enough? In this episode, Peter Feeney and Angie Szumlinski discuss the coronavirus outbreak and infection control in general.

Ep 10 Coronavirus and Infection Control

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