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...
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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...
Active Twitter User Celebrates 104th Birthday
OK I can’t get my 88-year-old mom to look at a computer and here we have dear Ivy Bean in England on Facebook and Twitter with more than 45,000 followers. Read the CNN article here. Then go and read my friend Laura Bramly’s blog about the larger implications and what...
Look to your leaders, not healthcare reform, to change long-term care
Read the guest blog in McKnight’s Long Term Care News and Assisted Living.
Is Quality Better in Not for Profit Nursing Homes
See our guest blog at Long Term Living Magazine.
Creating Heroes – An authentic path to person centered care
Guest video blog – Long Term Living Magazine
Creating Heroes – The Authentic Path to Person Centered Care
What do a long term care facility and a fire house have in common? A lot actually. Dirty jobs, life and death, dark moments and light yet the firefighters culture thrives with little burnout and low attrition. Why is that? Firefighters create a supportive and celebratory culture that acknowledges the...
Person Centered Care in Perspective
See guest video blog for Long Term Living Magazine here.
AAHSA Party with a Purpose
AAHSA has a unique way to involve people at a grassroots level in the health reform debate as it pertains to long term care. You can do your part by throwing a Party with a Purpose. These community gatherings will serve as a platform for conversation and action around long-term...
Putting Person Centered Care in Perspective
Person Centered Care. Culture Change. A lot of jargon is being spewed in the continuum of aging services. What I have noticed though is that while the talk is good, the underlying tone is somewhat defeatist and negative and that can only spell doom for the industry. While embracing the...