Nursing Home Culture Change
Nursing Home Culture Change:
How It Benefit Your Bottom Line
Kevin Do
University of Connecticut
Management of Long Term Health Care Organizations
Professor: Brandon Munson
Date: 11/01/2012
Abstract
This paper will discuss the culture change in long term care industry focused on nursing homes in America. Also, the methodologies of culture change will also be addressed. In the end, what culture change will benefit the nursing homes and how it helps managers to manage their bottom lines. A case study on a real nursing home was analyzed in this paper.
Nursing Home Culture Change:
How It Benefit Your Bottom Line
In the United States, nursing homes play vital role in delivering long term care (LTC) to people in an effective manner. However, the needs and requirements of LTC are quickly changing; hence nursing home chains need to update their operational style so as to better meet the emerging needs of the patient care. The last few decades witnessed the emergence of a number of patient care models which intended to transform the organizational culture of nursing home care across the United States. The culture change is usually taken place through radical innovation over several years. The major culture change models developed over the years include Wellspring, Service House, Eden Alternative, and Regenerative Community. According to Grant (2008), these culture change models share the common goal of focusing more on ‘person-centered’ or ‘resident-directed’ care and developing new operational practices that would transform nursing home environments from an institution to home. This paper will discuss the business case for implementing nursing home culture change with particular focus given to for-profit organizations.
An Overview of the Nursing Home Culture Change
The culture change movement emerged in some isolated sectors of the nursing home industry during the late 1980s. At the initial stages, this movement was promoted by a variety of
How It Benefit Your Bottom Line
Kevin Do
University of Connecticut
Management of Long Term Health Care Organizations
Professor: Brandon Munson
Date: 11/01/2012
Abstract
This paper will discuss the culture change in long term care industry focused on nursing homes in America. Also, the methodologies of culture change will also be addressed. In the end, what culture change will benefit the nursing homes and how it helps managers to manage their bottom lines. A case study on a real nursing home was analyzed in this paper.
Nursing Home Culture Change:
How It Benefit Your Bottom Line
In the United States, nursing homes play vital role in delivering long term care (LTC) to people in an effective manner. However, the needs and requirements of LTC are quickly changing; hence nursing home chains need to update their operational style so as to better meet the emerging needs of the patient care. The last few decades witnessed the emergence of a number of patient care models which intended to transform the organizational culture of nursing home care across the United States. The culture change is usually taken place through radical innovation over several years. The major culture change models developed over the years include Wellspring, Service House, Eden Alternative, and Regenerative Community. According to Grant (2008), these culture change models share the common goal of focusing more on ‘person-centered’ or ‘resident-directed’ care and developing new operational practices that would transform nursing home environments from an institution to home. This paper will discuss the business case for implementing nursing home culture change with particular focus given to for-profit organizations.
An Overview of the Nursing Home Culture Change
The culture change movement emerged in some isolated sectors of the nursing home industry during the late 1980s. At the initial stages, this movement was promoted by a variety of
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