The following is a guest blog from my colleague Nancy O’Brien. You may first want to view this video that prompted her to speak out.It is time for leaders to embrace a new form of efficiency – human efficiency – especially in healthcare and it starts with the awareness that...
Tag: person-centered care
Are Your Care Providers "in the Moment"?
The following is a guest blog from my colleague Nancy O’Brien. You may first want to view this video that prompted her to speak out.It is time for leaders to embrace a new form of efficiency ÛÒ human efficiency ÛÒ especially in healthcare and it starts with the awareness that...
20% of Healthcare Workers Suffer from Low Morale
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.
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...
California Nursing Homes Mandated to Post Five Star
The controversial Five Star nursing home rating system got more controversial as Governor Schwarzenegger signed legislation requiring California nursing homes to post their rating effective January 1, 2011. The Five-Star Quality Rating System, which was launched in December 2008, uses data from nursing home surveys, staffing rates, and 10 quality...
Can Leaders Succeed without Being Authentic?
What is authentic leadership? Can leaders succeed wearing masks at some point and unveiling them at others. You may have viewed my video blog on the subject. Here is a guest blog just published in Advance in Long Term Care Management.
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...
Principles to Advance Person-Centered Care
View and read our guest blog in Long Term Living Magazine.
Nursing Home as Battle Zone
This article puts in context the “battle” we face in balancing the needs of residents, caregivers, family and staff in moving long-term facilities from institutionalized warehouses to the best possible home they can be for residents. There is a long way to go. Read more here.
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...