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February 10, 2010
Culture Change Through Dining
Last week I sat in on a webinar put on by the Eden Alternative, which focused on various dining topics. The moderator recommended that we start by asking residents where they want to start with din...
February 02, 2010
CMS Guidelines Call for More Homelike Environments
The Federal and State surveyors showed up at our Kahului community this morning, so I thought that today would be as good a day as any to write about some of the changes in the Centers for Medicare...
February 02, 2010
Resident-Directed Care: The Culture-Change Movement
Continuing on with the idea of creating more a homelike environment for residents, I’d like to share an excerpt from an article titled “Person-Centered Care for Nursing Home Residents: ...
January 29, 2010
Transforming a Nurses’ Station into a Living Area
I was at our on-site yoga class the other day and Ted Tucker, our Chief Human Resources Officer, shared that he was out in the neighborhoods the evening before and was pleased to see that when he s...
January 28, 2010
Warming the Human Belly
Yesterday I shared a story that spoke about how we can help to nurture the human spirit of the people around us. Whether they be residents, clients, family members, or co-workers. Today I’d l...
January 27, 2010
Lifting the Human Spirit
I have to say that it makes me proud and lifts my spirit knowing that I work for an organization where even the CEO takes part in creating meaningful interactions with residents and clients. It is...
January 22, 2010
Computer Training Stems from Luana
This month our Administrative Secretary embarked on a project of her own design with the goal of helping residents who expressed an interest in learning how to use a computer or various computer pr...
January 20, 2010
Putting the 'Home' in 'Nursing Home'
In my previous posting, I shared a photo of resident Helen Oliveira’s newly decorated room, however there have been several residents whose rooms have been redecorated over the last year. The...
January 19, 2010
I Want to Go Home
This phrase, “I want to go home”, is probably a familiar one. We’ve all heard it from time to time, however for most people this phrase may come as a surprise when the person sayi...
January 13, 2010
Resident Fantasy Football League Winners
Hale Makua Kahului residents and staff participated in a Fantasy Football league for the past 16 weeks in which residents were arranged in a competitive league, earning “fantasy points”...