Six Things Everyone Should Know About Nursing Homes
National Nursing Homes Week is May 8 to 14, and the staffs at MyZiva.com and MyZiva.net have developed a list of six things everyone should know about nursing homes.
Lake Success, NY (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) May 9, 2005 – In celebration of National Nursing Homes Week (May
8-14), the staffs at MyZiva.com, a comprehensive resource providing a wide
variety of online educational and management tools, and MyZiva.net (www.MyZiva.net), a complete
reference guide for consumers, have developed a list of “Six Things Everyone
Should Know About Nursing Homes.”
Six Things Everyone Should Know About
Nursing Homes
1. It’s all about change. Nursing homes are undergoing a
staggering number of changes designed to improve the quality of care and
resident life and to make nursing homes feel more like a home, and less like a
hospital.
2. Meeting residents’ needs is job ONE. Today’s nursing homes
recognize the importance of person-centered or resident-centric care.
3.
It’s not your grandmother’s nursing home any longer. Traditional nursing homes
for older residents also provide care for younger adults, for rehabilitative
care or subacute care following an accident, surgery or serious illness.
4. You may like the food. Contrary to popular belief, not all
institutional food is, well, institutional – some nursing homes cater to
residents’ cultural palettes.
5. You do have a say. Residents and their
families are actively involved in improvements to their treatments and
environments, and discussing improvements in the quality of care and quality of
life with administrators and caregivers is very appropriate.
6. You can
shop around. MyZiva.net (www.MyZiva.net) is a completely free consumer site that
provides an objective and easy-to-use resource for prospective residents,
caregivers and healthcare professionals to evaluate and compare the 16,000+
nursing homes across the country.
National Nursing Homes Week is an
annual observance started by the American Health Care Association in 1967 to
recognize the high quality of care that long-term care facilities
provide.
Editors, for more information about www.MyZiva.net or www.MyZiva.com,
contact:
Arthur Germain
Marcomm Group
516-829-0404
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/5/prweb238486.htm