New Antimicrobial Stewardship Toolkits Available from Department of Health and Human Services
The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released four new toolkits on antimicrobial stewardship for nursing homes.
The toolkits cover a variety of interventions that nursing homes can use to improve antibiotic...
Get Capital Via New Markets Tax Credit Program
The New Markets Tax Credit program (NMTC Program) helps economically distressed communities attract private capital by providing investors with a federal tax credit. Learn more.
For Your Board
Here are some resources that CEOs and Administrators can use with their boards to more effectively fulfill their ethical, legal and fiduciary responsibilities. Some are shorter, such as the video on the fiduciary responsibilities...
More than Meds: A Toolkit for Creating Change in Nursing Homes
View More than Meds: A Toolkit for Creating Change in Nursing Homes, via Culture Outcomes.
National Study on Nonprofit Board Chairs
The Alliance for Nonprofit Management has issued a report based on a national study about board chairs’ preparation and understanding of their roles in relationship to their boards, their Executive Directors, and to the communities...
Standardization of Standing Orders in LTC
Here’s an interesting article about standing orders (SOs) in long-term care organizations. The aim of this project was to create a consensus-based SO set grounded in high-quality evidence, clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), and expert...
New Ideas on Use of Volunteers
Read The Volunteer as a Facilitator of Psychosocial Transition into LTC Settings by Managed Health Care Connect. A. Perrella. Annals of Long-Term Care: Clinical Care and Aging. 2015;23(12):31-34.
5-Star Analysis Webinar and Handouts
View the 5-Star Analysis Updated Webinar and handouts via LeadingAge NY.
Tips for Prescribing in the Nursing Home
Tips for Prescribing in the Nursing Home, by L. Liu and I. Campbell. Volume 24 - Issue 9 - October 2016 - ALTC.
Nursing home residents are at increased risk of adverse drug reactions, falls, hospitalization, and...
3 Strategies for Nonprofit Senior Living to Stay Competitive
In the latest Senior Housing News Report, the group outlines 3 strategies that were discussed at a recent Ziegler Conference that nonprofit senior living communities should consider to stay competitive. They include:
It’s time...
Life Story Work in Older Adults May Improve Dementia Care
Annals of Long-Term Care: Clinical Care and Aging. 2016;24(8):36.
LSW is a social intervention that, when used in older adults, involves helping them record aspects of their past and present lives along with future hopes. These chronicles...
LEED – A Resource for Energy Efficient Building
LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is changing the way we think about how buildings and communities are planned, constructed, maintained and operated. LEED is the most widely used third-party verification for...