PCALIC, LLC

Did you know adult residential care has an injury rate more than four times higher than mining, construction, and manufacturing combined? That's straight from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Read that again. A facility with a quiet hallway and a shared living room outpaces the industries most people picture when they hear "dangerous work." 🏠

The reason isn't broken equipment. It's the everyday work of caring for residents. Lifting, transferring, repositioning, catching a fall before it happens. Dozens of times per shift, across every shift, every day.

And the cost lands hard. The average work-related injury now runs $36,551 per incident. For most small residential care operators, that's more than a month of revenue gone to a single claim.

When we sit down with new facility owners, here's what we often find: workers comp limits set for a "low-risk office," no accounting for how often soft-tissue and back injuries happen, and no plan for what happens when two claims hit in the same year.

If your workers comp policy assumes your staff isn't doing anything dangerous, the numbers say otherwise. Your coverage should reflect the work your team actually does.

Review your limits before a claim forces the conversation.

The lost workday illness and injury rate in adult residential care is more than four times higher than mining, construction, and manufacturing combined.

Read that again. Combined. 🏥

It's one of the most common misconceptions we see among facility operators. The work looks calm from the outside. Quiet hallways. Warm meals. Familiar routines. So workers compensation gets treated as a box to check, not a real financial safeguard.

But the day-to-day tells a different story. Your staff are manually lifting, repositioning, transferring, and bathing residents every single shift. Back injuries. Shoulder strains. Slip-and-falls during a transfer. These aren't rare events. They're the reality of caregiving.

And they carry a price tag. The average workers comp claim in this space runs $36,551. For a small or mid-size facility, one serious staff injury can reshape an entire year of margins.

When operators see the real risk profile, everything shifts. Workers comp stops looking like overhead and starts looking like protection for the business you've built. Coverage limits get measured against actual claim costs, not state minimums. Safe-lifting protocols and staff training get funded, because the value is finally clear.

Your residents are your mission. Your staff are the people who deliver that mission every shift. Both deserve a policy built for the risks they actually face, not the ones the industry assumes they face.

Our office will be CLOSED tomorrow for the holiday weekend. We will return Monday, 4/17.

Behavioral health is the fastest-growing area affecting post-acute communities today. Adults in post-acute care often struggle with neurocognitive disorders (NCD), including delirium, amnestic disorders, major neurocognitive disorders due to medical conditions, cerebrovascular disease, and alcohol-related cognitive issues. Caring for adults with behavioral health challenges is creating new care service opportunities for providers — but it can also result in serious clinical and compliance issues, and even new stress levels for care teams, if not managed and executed with compassion, awareness and education.

By attending this webinar, post-acute facilities and communities will learn how to:
-Understand residents by understanding their behaviors: How to diligently, thoroughly and correctly assess new onset impairments and changing cognition to achieve regulatory compliance and high standards of person-centered, quality care while avoiding readmissions to the hospital.
-Navigate the pharmacotherapy interventions of NCD: How to reduce unnecessary psychotropic medications, which put facilities at-risk for clinical, regulatory, and ethical challenges.
-Improve use of non-pharmacologic behavioral interventions for challenging behaviors: How practitioners can successfully use their first line of behavioral intervention, effective communication, to increase resident and family satisfaction and improve CMS Five-Star Ratings.
-Utilize combinations of pharmacological and behavioral interventions to decrease rehospitalizations, compassionately care for residents with changing cognition and challenging behaviors, and increase toolboxes to reduce clinician and staff stress.

By attending this program in its entirety, you can earn 1 CE credit!

Register now: https://mcknights.tradepub.com/free/w_defa2383/prgm.cgi?a=1&AffiliateData=042622-FCB

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Just a reminder that our office will be CLOSED Monday, February 21st, for Presidents Day.

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