Product Enhancement for Florida Adult Family Care Homes
The continuing education and staff development kit designed to assist Florida operators of Adult Family Care Homes has been updated with new subject materials. The combined course, available in print, recorded or as an on-line completed item now has three, (3) combined subjects: Maintaining and Restoring Your Resident’s Dignity Foreseeing and Managing Potentially Violent Situations […]
In Adult Foster Care No Improvement Until Old Guard Gone?
In Michigan there is a running joke that goes, “can’t find work, not interested in higher education, go into adult foster care.” Adult foster care is the regulatory designation for operation of small group homes which for decades have housed, cared for and often fulfilled the lives of those with mental illness, developmental delays, medical […]
Private Duty Home Care and Staffing – Getting off to a Good Start…
Staffing comes in two, (2) major categories: (a) Private duty care providers in the private homes of clients being served. (b) Professional staffing including nurses, rehabilitative therapists and physician assistants who are assigned to fill-in inside of care institutions, i.e. hospitals. These professionals may also work assignments in nursing homes, rehab centers and specialty clinics […]
The Skilled Vs. Private Duty Conundrum
Skilled home health care is not new in America. For decades companies have obtained certification after a survey process and obtained Medicare provider numbers. Generally a recently discharged hospital or nursing home patient or someone with a new and/or chronically limiting diagnosis can benefit from the visits of nurses, medical social workers and rehabilitative therapists. […]
Rewards and Critiques of Private Duty Home Care
Because we work with over 300 home care companies, we listen to a variety of operational concerns associated with rendering home care across America and those affecting many of our foreign clients as well. For this reason every now and then I provide what we believe are some helpful critiques that can help you avoid […]
Rewards of and Critiques for Private Duty Home Care
Because we work with over 300 home care companies, we listen to a variety of operational concerns associated with rendering home care across America and those affecting many of our foreign clients as well. For this reason every now and then I provide what we believe are some helpful critiques that can help you avoid […]
Plan of Care Matters in Private Duty Home Care
More often than you might think the term “private duty” can spell a sense of neglect or non-duty for some. In this writing we refer to home care but not the typical Medicare certified skilled set of services, i.e. nursing and rehabilitation in a patient’s home for one, (1) certification period. We are speaking about […]
Temperament Kills too Many Otherwise Good Care Providers
I have seen care providers come and go from adult day care to assisted living to really promising home care providers. Some of them brought that special compassion that allowed them to visualize new ways to make a client’s life better with every contact. Even with such initiative and commitment I cannot give you a […]
A Vital Area of Mind Control
Oh what a profound and yet profane expression to some, “mind-control“. For many it refers to allowing someone or something to gain control of our mental faculties often to the point of dangerous or subservient outcomes. This is not about what we speak today. Today we speak about how the human mind – within the […]
Purchasing What Others Have Built Has Value
All of us know the care business always has potential. Let’s face it people who cannot totally take care of themselves rely upon the rest of us. Advantages associated with purchasing an existing business either in adult day care, assisted living or home care include: Established reputation of previous owner Sense of goodwill in community […]