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Tell me how your morning was today.  Did you jump out of bed before dawn raring to go?  Did you have a power shower?  Did you brush your teeth like a champ?  Did you peel rubber out of the driveway because you couldn’t wait to get to work? No?    Well, not many people do.  Many of us in this industry get up feeling like it’s just another day.  Most of us peel rubber out of the driveway because we’re running...

I have noticed a trend in some of our states.  As a way to save state funds, many of our states are pushing the Home & Comunity Services Programs.  This service falls under the Medicaid waiver program and is unheard of for many nursing home administrators … until they start seeing their referrals drop. Here’s an example - in Tennessee their Medicaid program is called TennCare.  TennCare’s longterm care CHOICES...

Typically on the first day of a new job, we are so busy getting orientation, watching hours of videos, and signing a huge packet of forms that we forget to ask some of the basic questions a new nursing home administrator should always know.  I put together a brief list of things I always make sure I ask for on my first day.  That way, it doesn’t drag out 2 weeks with me not knowing where to get what. Click on the picture below to...

Everyone is going to make mistakes.  I certainly have made my fair share.  Especially going into the role of a nursing home administrator which I really didn’t know anything about.  I’m lucky to have survived in this industry!   Here are a few mistakes I made as a rookie nursing home administrator.  Learn from my mistakes so you don’t have to repeat them for yourself. 1.  Not studying the regs everyday. The...

One thing I  like to do is to make resources available to my staff to enable them the opportunity to continue to grow and expand their knowledge in longterm care and all the things that go with it. Some of these resources include books and dvds.  When I was starting out, my administrator / preceptor / mentor loaned me some books on leadership and management that he’d been reading.  It opened my eyes that there was a lot left to...