October 1, 2008 |

LTL Online

The Long-Term Living Web site serves daily news focused on the LTC field. The news feed covers reports and studies, governance, views and news from healthcare associations, seniors’ health, personnel news, product developments, upcoming events, and more. Delivered to your e-mail inbox, the weekly e-newsletter is a convenient way to read the top headlines in the field. Find out more and subscribe to the eNews at https://www.iadvanceseniorcare.com

Would you want to be a resident in your facility?

Reader comments:

“I used to be able to say I would live in this facility, but since we were purchased by a hospital that has no experience with LTC and has made many changes (not good ones), I no longer would say that. As a matter of fact, I no longer recommend this facility as a place to live or stay—it is no longer a home, only a place for the hospital to make a buck.”

“Only if my needs were great and my living arrangement was private and with options.”

“In fact, I was, following a serious car accident last year. As administrator, I lived in my own facility for 2½ months. I’ve started speaking to trade groups about my experience and it’s changed my perspective tremendously.”

Sidebar

ONLINE EXCLUSIVES

Electronic health record certification: Next steps

So far the electronic health record (EHR) seems to be so much “sound and fury” for long-term care, signifying you know what. But there are organizations and facilities taking bold steps forward with it, and an important process toward certifying EHR products, and thereby helping validate them for LTC providers, is just getting started. Recently Sue Reber, communications director of the private, nonprofit, federally contracted Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) offered an unofficial progress report in an interview with Long-Term Living Editor-in-Chief Richard L. Peck.https://www.iadvanceseniorcare.com/EHRCertification

Sidebar

BLOG

Kathleen Mears’ Resident Blog: If I designed a nursing home

Several years ago I started a long-term care design plan. After fleshing it out, I began considering its cost-effectiveness. Then, I stopped writing my plan. I saw how difficult it is for the long-term care industry to design facilities that are functional and attractive. Number crunchers then would have considered my plan ‘blue sky.’ Given some facilities I have seen lately, maybe my plan may not have been extreme.

https://www.iadvanceseniorcare.com/KathysDesign

Long-Term Living 2008 October;57(10):6

I Advance Senior Care

I Advance Senior Care is the industry-leading source for practical, in-depth, business-building, and resident care information for owners, executives, administrators, and directors of nursing at assisted living communities, skilled nursing facilities, post-acute facilities, and continuing care retirement communities. The I Advance Senior Care editorial team and industry experts provide market analysis, strategic direction, policy commentary, clinical best-practices, business management, and technology breakthroughs.

I Advance Senior Care is part of the Institute for the Advancement of Senior Care and published by Plain-English Health Care.