Dementia is not the problem
When a major client and mentor tells you that you are wrong, it can be a humbling experience. When I considered redefining our company’s focus as a “dementia-engagement platform” instead of a “resident-engagement...
When a major client and mentor tells you that you are wrong, it can be a humbling experience. When I considered redefining our company’s focus as a “dementia-engagement platform” instead of a “resident-engagement...
With not enough bodies to do the work and increasingly complex regulations to contend with in long-term care, technology is going to be the way to salvation.
McKnight’s Executive Decisions September 2019
Though it’s less than a week to go and many colleagues are jittery and restless, I also have seen a feeling of excitement that has been missing for years in the post-acute setting. The Patient-Driven...
I concur with my nursing supervisor, who says that “it’s very effective” to offer immediate, consistent, readily available counsel.
This is Fall Prevention Awareness Week, but the truth is that preventing fall injuries among residents is a major year-round concern for long-term care providers. It’s with good cause: Fall safety...
Commissioners in Butler County, OH, have hired Chamika Poole, RN, as administrator for their cash-strapped public nursing home. Poole was slated to start Sept. 23 at annual salary of $89,833. Poole has...
Judy Dunn is the new CEO of Franke Tobey Jones, a 95-year-old continuing care retirement community serving approximately 200 residents in Tacoma, WA. She had been serving as interim CEO for the past year.
A star of “The Sound of Music” probably wouldn’t be hitting the right notes if she were trying to be admitted to a U.S. nursing home nowadays.