A recent Career Builder survey reveals that 20% of healthcare workers have low morale; 38% lack motivation; and 25% have no loyalty. Why is that important to providers, consumers, boomers and seniors? Take a look.
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Holiday Tips When Visiting Elders
Here are some additional holiday tips when visiting elders this holiday season. If you have not seen a loved one in a while, don’t be alarmed and panicked at their condition as it could simply be that they are aging naturally and appropriately. But do pay attention. And do stay...
Taking Quality of Care and Quality of Life for Granted Can Be Lethal
A recent trip to the American College of Healthcare Administrators conference where person-centered care was conspicuously absent from the agenda and a recent study that revealed that hospital boards may not be paying as much attention to quality as they should has me worried. Because inherent in both is the...
Causes You Adopt Can Come Back to Help You!
If I told an orthopedist he/she should adopt the cause of fall prevention, they might twitch, raise an eyebrow and say I am crazy. Likewise the nursing home administrator who can count many a hip and knee replacement patient as their resident might look at me funny. But the cause...
Can you be a Jekyll and Hyde Leader?
Warren Bennis asks “Can a leader both act and be real?” Bill George, a professor at the Harvard Business School, in his book True North, contends that a journey to leadership” cannot be made without “framing your life story, discerning your passions, finding your leadership purpose” and aligning it with...
Let’s Commit to these Principles to Advance Person-Centered Care
Recent Harvard articles have been consistent in their insistence that a different mode of leadership will be required in all businesses going forward. Business as usual got us into the predicament we are in so we can’t simply go back to it when the economy recovers. New leadership will be...
Having a Point of View versus Standing Up for Something You Believe In
I had an engaging conversation with Kellyann Curnayn, author of A Good Day in Hell: The Flatlining of Nurses Across America. She is a dedicated, practicing nurse. She told me that nurses do not get paid to take care of patients. They get paid to fill out paperwork. Kellyann has...
Guest Blog in Long-Term Living Magazine – Leadership Must Change if Person / Patient Centered to take Root
Our post from yesterday is now featured in Long Term Living Magazine’s blog entries. Leadership must change their ways or the experience for patients and residents and staff will not change. Interestingly today I had a wonderful conversation with Kellyann Curnayn. She is a nurse in Orlando and the author...
Leadership Must Change if Person / Patient Centered to take Root
I have been blogging a lot lately about why patient centered care and person centered care have not taken firm root. Readers of the blogs came back to one systemic issue – leadership. A couple of recent Harvard articles might hold the answer to the leadership question. The article, Are...
Changing Demographics and the Need for Education
This is a video blog of something we wrote about last week. A report released recently from the Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Commerce entitled An Aging World: 2008 should make people pause. Consider these key findings: åá People aged 65 and over will...