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Trust Starts at the Company Level
May 27, 2008 10:31 AM by Brian Garavaglia
Team building is an important facet for an organizational environment. In a previous article I mentioned the importance of trust for team development. It was also mentioned that the facility administrator has to lead this effort toward establishing a Read More...
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Dealing with Problem Work Behaviors in Long-Term Care
May 13, 2008 12:17 PM by Brian Garavaglia
In the previous article, Problem Personalities can Lead to Workplace Turmoil, a few major personalities and their resultant issues were examined. This paper looks at personality problems, their behaviors, and how to address these issues in long-term care Read More...
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Team Building in the Long-Term Care Environment
April 14, 2008 1:03 PM by Brian Garavaglia
The importance of the team in long-term care cannot be overstated. No single individual has all the answers. For efficient management to exist, the importance of a functional team is needed. However, all too often, team building is viewed as something Read More...
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Do Politicians Understand That Long-Term Care is Part of the Health Care System?
March 13, 2008 3:17 PM by Brian Garavaglia
During this year, a year in which our country will elect a new President, health care has become an important part of the agenda. Liz Rosto in her post entitled Decision 08 , writes about the issue of heath care and the apparent lack of emphasis given Read More...
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Be a PEST: The Social, Political, Economic and Technological Forces that Influence Nursing Home Administration
February 19, 2008 2:20 PM by Brian Garavaglia
Nursing home administration entails being aware of the macro social, economic and political forces that shape the daily life of nursing home administration. This is not an easy task since these forces are constantly changing and influencing the nursing Read More...
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Hot Button Topic: Is the Type of Nursing Home Ownership Important?
January 22, 2008 10:27 AM by Brian Garavaglia
A recent September 2007 New York Times article entitled, At Many Homes, More Profit and Less Nursing , discussed the issue of profit and ownership, especially by private equity firms. This article especially was quite critical of many companies that reduce Read More...
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Root-Cause Analysis: Correlational vs. Causative Findings
January 17, 2008 8:48 AM by Brian Garavaglia
It has been mentioned in the first three parts of this series that root-cause analysis is an important process to use in order to discover and find solutions to vexing issues that arise in long-term care. However, at the end of the third series, it was Read More...
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Role Ambiguity as a Part of Nursing Home Life
November 21, 2007 11:14 AM by Brian Garavaglia
An interesting part of working in long-term care, if for that matter any form of health care, is that it is never static and the roles that worked for you one day may not be the ones that will work for you the next day. Most of us seek stability and we Read More...
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Empowering Nursing Home Staff is the Key to Success
November 1, 2007 3:54 PM by Brian Garavaglia
Managing a nursing home, like managing other types of organizations, is dependent upon leadership that empowers workers. No one leader, whether they are a nursing home or hospital administrator, a general manager of retail, an office manager, or the President Read More...
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