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In High-Tech World: Stroke Rehab Remains Personal
Getting everyone on the same page through communication and education is the first step. Then the team can work together—along with the patient and family—to devise an individualized care plan that has the greatest chance of success.
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Caring For Elders At The Top Of The World
Although nursing homes confront the same basic problems, the uniqueness of the location of Utuqqanaat Inaat and how that has shaped the lives of the elders play a significant role in solving them. Providing person-centered care here includes going on many roads that are less traveled. Sharing some of the ways the home analyzed and addressed its problems may be useful to others. One initial assumption was that staff were able to communicate effectively with residents. That wasn’t an accurate assumption.
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Group Proposes Public Reporting For Assisted Living
In April 2013, 40 organizational leaders from the federal and state governments, investment and trade groups, policymakers, health care providers, consumer advocates, educators, and researchers convened in Washington, D.C., to discuss the utility and role of public reporting in assisted living. More than 80 percent of the attendees believed that additional efforts should be directed toward obtaining, compiling, and disseminating information related to specific services and supports offered by these providers.
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Parkinson’s Disease: Strong Marriages Suffer More
There are times when you catch a glimpse of her as overwhelmed, irritated, and chafing under her cross that weighs heavier each day. Two weeks ago, I watched her inching to the edge. She was out early running errands, she returned with a heavy load of groceries. Not letting me exert, she put away the groceries without help.
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Service And Savings Go Hand In Hand
This idea began at a department head meeting while discussing ways to enhance the resident dining experience. The team was able to tap into its dining services vendor for resources to accomplish this endeavor.
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Nurse Training Program Boosts Quality
Administrators are caught between a rock and a hard place. Among the rubs are reimbursement rate reductions of up to 15 percent, constant pressure to reduce hospital admissions, new battles to attract and retain core nursing staff in a shallow pool of nurses, and possible further cutbacks in Medicare and Medicaid payments, just to name a few.
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