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A Long-Term Care Leader's Guide to High Performance
Doing Better Together
Cathie Brady (Author), David Farrell (Author), Barbara Frank (Author)
9781938870507
Paperback / softback, published 9 February 2018
368 pages
22.6 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.495 kg
“Essential reading for all current and future leaders in long-term care. The authors are outstanding in this field, and provide valuable insight.” —Nicholas G. Castle, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management, University of Pittsburgh
From the authors of the award-winning Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care, this book provides a blueprint for success in today’s performance-based healthcare system. It presents a tested approach to delivering optimal care to each resident using a proven, coordinated bundle of key practices that include:
Whether care communities are excelling or struggling, leaders can benefit from these performance-improving practices. Filled with candid, impactful personal accounts about implementing quality improvement in nursing homes, A Long-Term Care Leader’s Guide reveals precisely how leaders and their staff can do better, together.
A communication infrastructure to support teamwork throughout an organization
A high-involvement performance improvement process that delivers quality person-centered care and prevents avoidable declines
This practical resource takes long-term care leaders through the critical steps to achieve staff stability, strengthen coordination of care, and maintain the highest practicable well-being for each resident. It demonstrates how engaging staff in continuous quality improvement produces consistently high-quality care.