Facility management

Not Just an “Old Folks’ Home”

An interview with David Fridkin, FACHE, and Eulalia Awan, RNIllustration: "The Bus," by Frida Kahlo, 1929  Imagine finding yourself confined to a Read More »

Computer Technology Update

New IT Products to Enhance Resident Care and Well-BeingBY MALCOLM H. MORRISON, PHD While most of the nation's attention on medical errors has been Read More »

The Business Side of PACE, Part 2

The Business Side of PACE, Part 2How the actual experience of two PACE organizations is contributing to the development of new programsBY JADE GONG, Read More »

Workforce Solutions From Your Peers

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Why Residents Wander – and What You Can Do About It

Why Residents Wander - and What You Can Do About ItAN INTERVIEW WITH BETTYE ROSE CONNELL, PhD Few events stop long-term care staff and administrators Read More »

Growth Through Volunteering

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Understanding the Business Side of PACE, Part 1

Understanding the Business Side of PACE, Part 1The National PACE Association develops new Financial Planning Tools for would-be developersBY JADE Read More »

The Case of the Missing Medical Records

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Eleven Ways to Improve Collections in Long-Term Care

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Medication-Monitoring Lawsuit: Case Study and Lessons Learned

Medication-Monitoring Lawsuit: Case Study and Lessons LearnedAnother real-life case in nursing home litigationby Linda Williams, RN The lack of a Read More »

Successfully Implementing Divergent Specialized Programs in a SNF

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HIPAA Compliance Requires Facilities to Have Privacy Policy

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Design Center

MERCY RIDGE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY   Timonium, Maryland   TYPE OF FACILITY/SETTING: CCRC Read More »

Does Ozone Laundry Really Work? A User’s Report

Does Ozone Laundry Really Work? A User's Report Employed as early as 1906 to treat the water supply in Paris, France, and used today in some Read More »

Change to Survive: The SOPA Approach to Costing

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Teach Staff to Walk in Surveyors’ Shoes

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Safety: A Key Ingredient in the Recipe for Success

Safety: A Key Ingredient in the Recipe for SuccessFrom CNAs to administrators, everyone at The Forest at Duke makes safety a priorityBY JAMES J. Read More »

5 Steps to Preventive Maintenance

Every few months somebody has a new requirement that adds to our Environmental Services workload. More and more, we need to document processes and Read More »

HIPAA Compliance, Part 2: Monitoring Your “Business Associates”

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HIPAA and Handhelds

BY DAN JACOB As nursing homes struggle to ensure that older information technology systems are HIPAA-compliant, they also need to consider how HIPAA Read More »

Beating the Nursing Home Staffing Blues

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Marycrest Assisted Living’s Venture Into Olmstead Territory

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An IT System That Pulls Staff Together

Common practice within long-term care organizations is to use standardized forms and spend countless hours updating policy and distributing Read More »

O Administrator, DON, Where Art Thou?

O Administrator, DON, Where Art Thou? With turnover rates on the rise, where will tomorrow's administrators and DONs come from?BY TODD HUTLOCK, Read More »

Outsourcing With an ASP: A Guide to Decision Making

By Mark Counts An application service provider (ASP) can be an attractive outsourcing option for many reasons. Take a close look at your organization Read More »

Cultural Sensitivity as a Means of Survival

Cultural sensitivity is not only good unto itself, but an essential tool in risk management and successful staffingby Annaliese Impink, Esq.  The Read More »

Reduction of Risk for Falls Program

Reduction of Risk for Falls Program Adapted from a 2002 OPTIMA Award entry by Evangelical Manor, PhiladelphiaBy Barbara Hacker, RN, MEd, NHA For Read More »

Wireless Emergency Response: The Facts

This new technology offers important benefits New wireless technology offers many opportunities for upgrading communications in a residential care Read More »

How Communications Technology Reduces Risk

Residents' wandering opens up major legal exposures. The answer is communication-personal and technological In September 2001, a 75-year-old man Read More »

2002 Optima Award Winner – The Safety Program: Sunset for Sundowning

Adapted from the submission by Bortz Health Care of Traverse City, Traverse City, Michigan; written by Debra Hagerty, BS, BSN, MSN, SW, Director of Read More »