Six Things Everyone Should Know About Nursing Homes
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May 9, 2005 ? In celebration of National Nursing Homes Week (May 8-14), the staffs at MyZiva.com, a comprehensive resource providing a wide variety of online educational and management tools, and MyZiva.net (www.MyZiva.net), a complete reference guide for consumers, have developed a list of "Six Things Everyone Should Know About Nursing Homes." Six Things Everyone Should Know About Nursing Homes1. It's all about change. Nursing homes are undergoing a staggering number of changes designed to improve the quality of care and resident life and to make nursing homes feel more like a home, and less like a hospital.
2. Meeting residents' needs is job ONE.
Today's nursing homes recognize the importance of person-centered or resident-centric care. 3. It's not your grandmother's nursing home any longer. Traditional nursing homes for older residents also provide care for younger adults, for rehabilitative care or subacute care following an accident, surgery or serious illness. 4.
You may like the food. Contrary to popular belief, not all institutional food is, well, institutional ? some nursing homes cater to residents' cultural palettes.5. You do have a say. Residents and their families are actively involved in improvements to their treatments and environments, and discussing improvements in the quality of care and quality of life with administrators and caregivers is very appropriate.6. You can shop around.
MyZiva.net (www.MyZiva.net) is a completely free consumer site that provides an objective and easy-to-use resource for prospective residents, caregivers and healthcare professionals to evaluate and compare the 16,000+ nursing homes across the country. National Nursing Homes Week is an annual observance started by the American Health Care Association in 1967 to recognize the high quality of care that long-term care facilities provide.Editors, for more information about www.MyZiva.net or www.MyZiva.com, contact:Arthur GermainMarcomm Group516-829-0404.
Five Risky Ways People Choose Nursing Homes
Myths associated with selecting nursing homes suggest quick and easy ways to identify quality care, but relying on these myths can lead to disastrous results. Here are five of the worst ways to select a nursing home.1. The Personal Recommendation:Last weekend Jim, a friend who had put his mother in a nursing home recommended by a friend, called me in a panic. Although his mother was recuperating from a stroke, no nurse or aide checked on her the night before. Jim discovered her in the morning with many cuts and bruises, her sheets soaked in blood.
"I can't believe anyone would recommend that nursing home," he complained. "My friend said her grandmother was in this particular nursing home, so, I thought it would be good care." "How often does your friend visit her grandmother?" I asked him. "I didn't think to ask." "And did you check the latest state survey for that nursing home?" "No," he answered. "I thought a personal recommendation was all I needed." Jim's mother is now back...
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Day One at Nursing Home For Rehabilitation
Finally your patient is at the skilled unit of nursing home.
The admission paper work into a skilled nursing home for rehabilitation can take near up to an hour to complete.
The responsible party whether it is you the patient, your spouse an adult child, someone will have to sign all of the paper work.The day that the resident is received at the nursing home skilled rehabilitation unit the resident or the responsible party will be offered a list of physicians to select one that will follow them during their stay.
When a physician is selected the nurse will contact him/her to receive the resident. The nurse will receive report from the hospital nurse to verify the discharge orders from the hospital physician and the condition of the resident.
The first day (all time before midnight) at the nursing home is called the day of rest (day 1 of skilled care). No therapies or therapy evaluations will be offered on this day so that the resident can become adjusted...
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