If you’re on the hunt for reliable, professional medical staff you can count on, consider hiring a veteran. Young veterans today are facing a very high rate of unemployment. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in June that the unemployment rate for Afghanistan and Iraq veterans was 12.7 percent, while the unemployment rate for veterans […]
As more and more of us are living – and working – longer, you may have found that you have up to four generations working together in your facility: The Silent Generation (sometimes referred to as the “Greatest Generation”, thanks to Tom Brokaw… were born between the 1920s and 1942). Many experts believe that 95% […]
Thinking of expanding your senior living properties, but worried about finding financing? Consider aligning with a REIT. A Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is, according to Investopedia.com, a “security that sells like a stock on the major exchanges and invests in real estate directly, either through properties or mortgages.” Healthcare REITs invest in senior housing, […]
Does your care facility have empathetic staff? Are you sure? Just what is empathy anyway? The word empathy has its origins in psychology when German psychologist Theodore Lipps created the term einfuhlung, which means “in-feeling” to categorize the “emotional appreciation of another’s feelings.” Empathy also is sometimes described as the ability to understand someone else’s experience […]
Whether you work in clinic, a senior residential community, as an LVN or as any other type of healthcare professional, you’re eventually going to be caring for the elderly. The elderly have it tough. The screen legend, Bette Davis, famously said “old age is no place for sissies”, and she was correct beyond what anyone […]
Many companies are still hurting from the recent recession. The current recovery is sluggish and uncertain. If you believe that your facility won’t be able to afford staff increases this year, but you’re concerned that you’ll lose great employees because of it, read below for some benefits you may be able offer staff members to […]
Electronic health records (EHR) will be replacing most “hard copy” medical records in medical facilities – if they haven’t done so already. Is your nursing home, rehab facility or healthcare clinic prepared? The Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) in 2010 surveyed physician offices with 1-5 physicians on staff. They reported on the top 10 […]
Conventional wisdom asserts that nurse turnover is a “bad” thing, resulting in increased costs (the need to recruit new nurses) as well as the cost of losing an experienced nurse’s medical knowledge and skills as well as his or her knowledge of the “way things are done” at a particular medical facility. It seems to […]
We may talk about a mission of caring and compassion. But is your retirement community really about making sure your residents have, literally, the times of their lives, no matter what physical or cognitive challenges they may have? A mission around the idea of “caring” is very easy to talk but very hard to implement. After all, […]
If the website for your retirement community hasn’t been updated in the past three years, you may find that Baby Boomers are passing it by, and you are losing out on considerable revenue. Why? Because more and more people search and research on the Web for information on all aspects of their lives. This includes […]
