McKnight's Newsmaker Videos: Variety of long-term care services requires attention to building layout, operator says

Because of the diversity of services that long-term care facilities provide—short-stay rehab, memory care, etc.—it helps to separate the services into special sections within each building. Timothy Phillippe, president of Christian Homes in Lincoln, IL, talked about this topic to McKnight's Long-Term Care News during the American Health Care Association's conference in Long Beach, CA, earlier this month.

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