As a new nursing home administrator – or maybe you’re just taking a new building – you have to find out what level your staff is on, especially the individual who is marketing the nursing home.  You know your census depends on the quality and census development ability of your Marketing Director.  Believe it or not, sometimes you run across someone who has either never been trained properly or has become too complacent...

If you haven’t figured it out by now, those of us working in the longterm care industry have a ton of work to do.  I have worked in other industries and this one by far takes the cake with giving you so many tasks you can’t think straight. One of the things that used to drive me crazy is that I couldn’t get finished with all the tasks that had developed during the day in addition to the items already on my agenda.  I...

Several times in my career I’ve had to take a facility that was in it’s survey window and I just knew we were nowhere near ready.  It’s pretty stressful to realize the impending doom that survey can present if they find everything you know is wrong.  And there just isn’t enough time to get everything fixed. There are a few things you can do to improve your odds of having a decent survey at least clinically.  Some...

So you want to become a great nursing home administrator.  But you find yourself not quite attaining the level of success you aspire to.  Have you asked yourself one simple question:  What am I doing wrong? You want to accomplish great things in this long term care industry we call home.  Here are 10 points to consider.  If you’re doing any of  these, it could very well be the roadblock on your highway to success. 1.  Not...

Every nursing home is required to have at least an annual survey in the range of every 9 – 12 months.  Of course, if you have complaints or are a focus facility, your survey will have a shortened span between them, every 6 months or so. The goal of every nursing home administrator and facility should be to be survey ready everyday.  It does no good to not think about survey all year until the State survey team shows up. So, to...