Cirillo Named Channel Partner – Bringing New Solutions to Address Patient Experience

General Posted by anthony Date March 27, 2012

I typically do not write about my personal career here but this post I believe is important.

I have been selected Healthcare Channel Partner for CEO².

My passion is to improve healthcare. My platform of educated aging is what you read about everyday. This is the other side of my life.

CEO² will help take my thought leadership around patient-resident experience and my real-world experience in hospitals, long-term care organizations and with boomers/seniors to another level. By partnering with CEO² we can deliver systemic solutions to help healthcare providers change patient-resident experiences and sustain those changes. And it starts with individual passion and purpose.

I have been searching for several years to find a partner that could help bring the ideas I have written about to life. More than a patient experience solution, this is truly an organizational transformation process.

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By transferring skills in both business acumen and people know-how, CEO² makes people successful as individuals and as team members and the results are repeatable and sustainable for the organization.

My company Fast Forward Consulting will continue to do the work clients rely on. Only now that work will be inspired and fueled by a team of people who will bring fresh ideas into healthcare.

The attached release and backgrounder can provide more information.

Make A Wish Programs For Seniors (VIDEO)

General Posted by anthony Date March 27, 2012

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Preventing Medication Injury (VIDEO)

General Posted by anthony Date March 26, 2012

Make A Wish Programs For Seniors

General Posted by anthony Date March 26, 2012

@Joe McBride, Getty Images

USA Today published an article a few months ago that looked at organizations that grant wishes to seniors. I couch them as “Make A Wish Programs for Elders” for lack of a better term. They mentioned three but frankly left out my good friend P.K. Beville’s organization, Second Wind Dreams, in the process.

Let’s take a look at these programs because they can be a good adjunct to your activities program and in the process garner great publicity for your organization.

Second Wind Dreams
Founded in 1997, Second Wind Dreamså¨ was the first organization focusing on granting dreams for elders in the United States. Through the fulfillment of dreams and educational programs, Second Wind Dreamså¨ enhances the quality of life for those living in elder care communities (nursing homes, assisted living, hospice, etc) and changes the perception of aging.

Forever Young Senior Wish Organization
Forever Young works to change the image of aging and redefine it with self-confidence, respect, and a hopeful life for seniors. In October 2009, Forever Young found a huge need in the senior adult community. Many World War II veterans had not seen that National WWII Memorial in Washington D.C. It has become one of the main missions of the organization, taking multiple trips a year.

Twilight Wish Foundation
Twilight Wish Foundation was founded in Doylestown, Pennsylvania in 2003 by Cass Forkin, after her chance encounter with several elderly women in a diner. After noticing them counting their change to pay their diner bill, Forkin anonymously paid it for them. Their gratitude for her simple gesture inspired Forkin to found Twilight Wish Foundation. Twilight Wish has granted over 1,660 individual wishes to deserving seniors across the U.S.

Jeremy Bloom’s Wish of a Lifetime
Jeremy Bloom’s Wish of a Lifetime (JBWOL) enriches the lives of seniors. JBWOL was established by two-time Olympic Skier, former NFL football player and Colorado native Jeremy Bloom. Bloom launched the Foundation with a vision to initiate a cultural change by granting the wish of a lifetime to deserving seniors throughout the United States. The Colorado-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization was launched in Spring 2008 as The Donna Wheeler Foundation. Later, the Foundation was officially named Jeremy Bloom’s Wish of a Lifetime.

If nothing else these grant wishing organizations can use financial support. But more than that, senior living facilities should embrace these organizations. When I talk to my friend P.K. she laments that more organizations do not take advantage of these programs. I am not sure if long term care organizations are not interested, are unaware, think there is some type of liability….whatever. I would encourage you to check these organizations out and support them on behalf of all of our seniors. and then tell your local assisted living and nursing homes to incorporate these programs into their community life.

Reprinted from my about.com upcoming blog.

Preventing Medication Injury

General Posted by anthony Date March 23, 2012

Check those meds!
@Richard Newstead, Getty Images

A recent article in the Injury Board Magazine looked at medication injury and how to prevent medication disasters. Here are some tips:

Keep a list of all your medications including prescription, over the counter medications and supplements. And make copies for your healthcare providers.
Starting a new prescription? Talk to your pharmacist and your physician about the risks and side effects and how the medication will interact with your other medications.
Follow the instructions for taking your medications.
Check the insert in your medication to make sure that you are receiving the appropriate one.
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Research the medication online and take a look at what the pill looks like. Compare that to what you actually receive.

And as always, check with your physician.

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