Administration

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 »

Can You Use a Legal Nurse Consultant?

Can You Use a Legal Nurse Consultant?These specially trained and experienced nurses can be frontline protectors against liability suitsBY MARDY 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 »

OSHA’s Emphasis Is on Nursing Homes

OSHA's Emphasis Is on Nursing Homes What to do if (or when) the federal safety inspectors pay a visit under the new National Emphasis ProgramBY 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 »

Risk Management Survival Guide

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IV. The Pluses and Minuses of Captives

IV. The Pluses and Minuses of Captives by John A. Wright, CPCU, CIC During times of rising insurance premiums and difficulty in finding insurance Read More »

Using a Mission Statement to Staff Assisted Living

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The 10 How – To’s of Good Carpet Care

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II. How to Self – Assess Your Facility for Risk Exposure

II. How to Self-Assess Your Facility for Risk Exposure By Richard J. Henry, JR., CNHA; and Christine A. Stevens, RN, MBA The long-term care business Read More »

III. Probing the Mysteries of “Claims – Made” Policies

III. Probing the Mysteries of " Claims-Made " Policies By Richard Todd Over the past 2 to 3 years, some new terminology has started showing up at Read More »

Nursing Assistant Training and Education: Recommendations for Change

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Cost – Effective Purchasing: Advice From a GPO

Shifting focus from item pricing can yield greatest savings The current staffing crunch and trend toward revenue reduction in long-term care mean Read More »