The governmentÛªs Special Focus Facility (SFF) program should add 450 nursing homes according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GOA). The GAO wants to include 580 of the poorest performing facilities nationwide-a more than four-fold increase over the 136 facilities currently singled out by the program. It...
Tag: person-centered care
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...
New leadership methods could propel patient-/person-centered care
Read our guest blog in Hospital Impact.
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...
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.
Creating Heroes – An authentic path to person centered care
Guest video blog – Long Term Living Magazine
The PR Implications of a Bad Experience
Thanks to Jonathan Rosenfeld for calling this to attention. The narrator, while not totally compelling, nonetheless paints a story of life for his father in one nursing home. Think the experience is not important. This is the result when it is not.
Person Centered Care in Perspective
See guest video blog for Long Term Living Magazine here.