I almost feel like I’ll need to find a confessional booth after completing this blog post. I come not to bury the Green House project but to praise it. This is tough to do.
Continuity and quality of care should matter more than enriching staffing agencies
By
Brendan Williams
Oct 30, 2023
My association administers a long-term care foundation that has given over $1 million in scholarships to workers in New Hampshire long-term care facilities looking to pursue their dreams. Put another...
Got a wicked problem?
By
Martie Moore
Jul 28, 2023
Tom Wujec opens his talk with a statement: “Tell me about a wicked problem, and I will help you make toast.” He uses toast-making to help people understand the nodes and links within a system....
Why worry about wound care?
By
Jenny Bender
Jun 09, 2023
One of the basic concepts in infectious disease epidemiology is the “chain of infection” – in order for any organism to persist in the environment and cause infections, all links of the chain must...
If not us, then who?
By
Julie Thorson
Oct 12, 2022
I can’t remember the date. I don’t remember what was happening at the time. What regulation changed, who tested positive, what family was upset, what team member was infuriated, or what system had...
LTC insurance sales suddenly surge
By
Stephen A. Moses
Aug 10, 2022
Long-term care is a high risk and huge potential cost for aging Americans. Yet few plan ahead, and fewer still insure privately for this impending peril. Until now. Private insurers report that 140,000...
Judgment day is here again
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 16, 2016
I can only imagine what it’s like to have your every move and outcome scrutinized. And then have a “report card” issued, one that is published where literally the whole world can see...
4 steps to creating an interactive music therapy program
By
Renee Coro-Wilson
Aug 03, 2017
Music therapy is in the news a lot lately, and there’s a reason for that: it works.
Tips to market your new modality
By
Kimmer O’Neill
Jan 27, 2017
You might not have gone to school for marketing, but if you get a new modality for your clinic, you’ll very quickly find yourself wearing a marketer’s hat. This is what happened to our team...
Going back to servant leadership
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jan 23, 2012
I have to wonder why, when some people get in a “power” position, they kind of turn into real … dictators. We’ve all seen it, everyone from the nursing assistant who gets promoted...