Susan E. Costella, RN, Clinical Director of Nursing, implemented person-centered care plans. Hospital Care teams are often challenged with overseeing fragile and elderly patients. Such challenges may ...

Person-centered care refers to “providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.” ...

Older people using home care services have a home care plan that identifies how their personal priorities and outcomes will be met. Discussing individual priorities and needs with older people can ...

A more integrated approach to managing complex member populations starts by moving beyond clinical care settings and extending services into the community. Community-based care drives more predictable ...

The movement to transform the country’s health care delivery system has been underway for several years now, and some moments of truth are approaching. The ultimate success of this monumental effort ...

A new road map highlights how to overcome barriers to integrating person-centered care and evidence-based research at hospitals caring for vulnerable populations. Historically, person-centered care ...

Q: Our facility was recently cited under F-656, Comprehensive Care Plans, for the third year in a row. How can we ensure compliance? A:F-656 is one of the top 10 most-cited deficiencies. The ...

During 2012, the state of dementia care in the United States, the call to reduce antipsychotic drugs, and the relative exclusion of person-centered dementia care practices in our first National ...

Care, comfort, compassion, and consolation are as important as finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease (PD). For some healthcare professionals, the source of such values is patient-centered care 1 ...

The intense pressure to meet staffing needs, along with the fervent obligation to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, can adversely impact our approach to leading people. Focusing on the ...

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