We know we live in a litigious society and that one of the costs gobbling up healthcare dollars is liability and malpractice insurance. Some long term care operators simply can not afford it. So they improvise making it much harder for you to sue if something happens to a loved...
Tag: choosing a nursing home
Some Caveats to the Nursing Home Compare 5 Star Rating System
We have said in the past that the Nursing Home Compare site even before the 5 Star rating was introduced was just a start in evaluating nursing facilities. I will continue to share a myriad of tips I have accumulated for evaluating care homes. That said when looking at the...
Look for the Resident Experience When Choosing a Long-Term Care Home
I had the opportunity to write an article for Health Leaders entitled The Chief Experience Officer that looked at having someone in a hospital or long term care facility responsible for how the health care experience is delivered, spiritually, physically, clinically. As a marketer, I wrote it simply to support...
Residents Out of Wheelchairs
There is a group I just stumbled upon called the GROW Coalition. GROW stands for ÛÏGetting Residents Out Of Wheelchairs.Û It is the goal of the GROW Coalition that residents residing in nursing homes use regular seating devices in situations where sitting in a regular chair is considered the norm...
Paying for Long Term Care
The majority of baby boomers have not planned accordingly for long-term care expenses and mistakenly believe they have the resources to cover such care. According to a survey released earlier this week by AmericaÛªs Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) among boomers nearing or at age 60, only 25% say they are...
Nursing Home Heroes
I had the opportunity to attend the American Health Care Association annual meeting in Boston last month where I spoke about marketing issues at their assisted living day. Afterwards I attended a luncheon that recognized long term care heroes. Benjamin Thacker of Charlottesville, VA has been volunteering in nursing homes...
For Profit Nursing Homes Worse?
You must read this New York Times article from Sunday, September 23. It complements other writing on the topic that shows how for profit long term care providers create such a complex corporate legal structure that it is nearly impossible to identify, let alone sue, ownership. It shows how so...
Gifts for Nursing Home Patients
I don’t usually take kindly to people selling in their blogs but I came across a unique one that actually does a great service. It is a gift basket company that devoted a post to talking about appropriate gifts to by loved ones in nursing homes. It is worth a...
Blacks likelier to live in poor-quality nursing homes
A new report in the September/October issue of Health Affairs, finds that 60% of blacks in nursing homes ended up in just 10% of the facilities ÛÓ typically ones that had been cited for quality problems. Interestingly the south was the least segregated around this issue. And that is consistent...
House Bill 3162
U.S. House Bill 3162 is getting a lot of publicity these days because it addresses one of the most vulnerable segments of our population – that’s right children. Its noble goal to expand health coverage to children comes at a price. Hidden in the bill is a provision to slash...