Patient-Centered Care

The Center for Innovation, or CFI, the parent organization of the Green House Project and Pioneer Network, is reorganizing its leadership as it focuses on growth.

Spirituality affects key illness outcomes such as quality of life and medical care decisions, finds a review by a panel of 27 experts.

Is it me or sometimes do the wide interpretations within the State Operations Manual (the dreaded “RED book”) make you want to question your entire existence? I mean, we’ve been working...

LTC nurses report high emotional and physical burden in end-of-life care for dementia residents … Medicare paying $2 billion annually on ‘wasteful’ services … Clinicians strategies...

In my last post, I discussed culture change and its positive impact on the mental health of the residents, particularly at Eden Alternative facilities. I recently also had the opportunity to tour a Green...

Caring staff members who form close relationships with residents are a strength of long-term care facilities, but workers could more consistently honor residents’ choices and privacy, according to...

So I was reading this article in a publication related to improving patient-centered care. It stressed that essential to delivering that type of care would be physician/patient-centered communication skills.