Taking on a facility?  Want to make sure you don’t make the same mistake that so many administrators before you have in the same building?  It’s all about building your team of department heads and key personnel.  How do you make sure you’re not letting problem employees hang around too long?  They haven’t really done anything to get harsh disciplinary action right now.  Their annual eval is months away.  Yet,...

Hey Guys!  Today we have a guest post from Chris Urbano and our friends at BrainTrack.com.  BrainTrack is a higher education and career resource with worldwide reach. It features a directory of the world’s universities and colleges with over 10,000 institutions listed from over 190 countries.  Check it out! What is it like to work in a nursing home? Chris Urbano is a registered nurse with 12 years of experience working in an...

So, I was looking at this website www.nccdp.org for The National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners.  It’s a great resource for all things dementia-related.  As I’m browsing around, this link catches my eye:  Fake Bus Stop Keeps Alzheimer’s Patients from Wandering Off So, basically you build a non-working bus stop inside your facility or dementia unit complete with sign and bench.  The Alzheimer’s...

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Have you ever received a referral from the hospital and on the face sheet under Payor source, it said, “Self Pay”?  This means they have no Medicaid or Medicare and are privately responsible for their bill.  Many times this also means they are “No Pay” becuase they have no money. Obviously, costly residents who can’t pay are a huge problem for the hospital and they need to discharge them as quickly as...

Can you believe this?! From:  SFGATE “California investigators are trying to determine how a 94-year-old woman ended up in a freezer at an upscale retirement home. The Los Angeles Times said Saturday that the California Department of Social Services is investigating the Oct. 28 incident, when the employees of Silverado Senior Living in Calabasas could not find one of their 60 residents. State records say that after a search of the...

Quick & Easy LTC Marketing Research & Analysis: How to Complete a Market Study Today, we’re going to go over a quick and easy way to do market research for you to determine the viability of a new niche program for your facility.  Now, you can pick any niche – bariatrics, trachs, etc.  You just have to locate the statistical resources for your research.  I have selected an Alzheimers/Dementia unit for the purpose of...

You’ve seen him.  You may have worked for him or he may just be a colleage.  I hope he doesn’t work for you or else you’ve got some work to do.  His name is Peter.  And he is incompetent in his job. The Peter Principle is the principle that “in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence” (from Wikipedia).  It was formulated in 1969 by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull....

Here’s another one: http://www.wusa9.com/rss/local_article.aspx?storyid=113473 From Peggy Fox, 9NEWS NOW & wusa9.com ARLINGTON, Va. (WUSA) — It may be one of the largest nursing home abuse cases in history. Nearly a dozen employees at Potomac Center nursing home at 1785 S. Hayes Street in Arlington have been indicted. Two of them are already convicted. “My husband’s diaper, I would come in 12 hours later, the...