Rhode Island’s Gifford named new national nursing home and assisted living quality chief
Mar 02, 2011
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living on Tuesday named Dr. David R. Gifford as their senior vice president of quality and regulatory affairs, a new department within...
Systematic improvement is a key to larger culture change in long-term care, Advancing Excellence leader...
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 05, 2013
The Advancing Excellence campaign is well known for helping long-term care providers improve on measureable quality goals, but the program goes beyond this to create less quantifiable changes, according...
Push to decrease antipsychotics use has only just begun
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 14, 2012
If you feel like you’ve been reading a lot about antipsychotics lately, you’re not alone.
Why do we do some of this ‘stuff’?
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Feb 15, 2012
We do a lot of “stuff” in nursing that makes no sense (both in acute care and long-term care — I’m not singling us out here). We do a lot of things that waste precious time and are...
A better way for nursing homes to advance
By
James M. Berklan
May 14, 2014
Perhaps some of long-term care’s brightest stars didn’t want to be accused of getting worse. We’ll soon find out.