How one patient chose a PAC provider
Hospital patients often think they can head home immediately. Recently, a hospital patient who needed a total hip replacement was able to use technology to make a post-acute care provider choice and seamlessly...
Giants of community are not forgotten
Launched more than a decade ago, the purpose of the Signature HealthCARE Hall of Fame is to honor the contributions and lifetime achievements of nursing home residents, staff members, volunteers and other...
No joke: Nursing Home Compare, ratings earn praise
At first blush, the phrasing seemed like the punch line to a questionable long-term care-related gag. But upon further reflection, it began to sound more and more like an earnest compliment. The government’s...
Another way to capture ADLs
The conventional wisdom for improving Activities for Daily Living is to educate and re-educate and then educate again.
Feel-good stories that make nursing homes look bad
Being discharged from a nursing facility to a home- or community-based setting seems like a completely positive development — and the media certainly present it that way. These human interest stories...
Attacking the cleaning cloth culprit
Many buildings have cut back on cleaning, so those cleaning workers that remain are being asked to do more in less time. The result is that sometimes, usually to save time, workers may very well use the...
Roadmap to person-centered care
It’s time for us to scrap the old model of medicine and adopt what we’re calling “person-centered care,” which focuses on the whole person, and not just the disease.
Replace the Five Star Quality Ratings system with points?
There’s a need to fix what’s broken with the Five Star nursing homes-ratings system, and the way to do it is obvious.
Reaves begins at Greenspring
Justin G. Reaves has chosen as the assistant director of finance at Greenspring, an Erickson Living retirement community in Springfield, VA.
Working on how to communicate in facilities
Transitions between care settings are getting more scrutiny than ever before. So thank goodness for new guidelines designed to help smooth them out. Still, we need all the help we can when it comes to...
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