Adding Value to Long-Term Care [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Dianne Lazer (Author), Tobi L. Schwartz-Cassell (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0787951706 | ISBN-13: 978-0787951702 | Publication Date: June 1, 2000 | Edition: 1

Sponsored by Elder Clinical Resources, LLC

Written for health care administrators, medical directors, nursing executives, architects, and facility planners, Adding Value to Long-Term Care is a comprehensive resource that provides the tools and information needed to improve the clinical environment for residents, staff, and families; strengthen overall business operations; and secure a facility's financial future. This essential book and companion diskette are filled with a wealth of down-to-earth advice, helpful checklists, and easily reproducible forms-tools for effective business and clinical planning.

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"Adding Value to Long-Term Care is a must read. The Value System offers vast improvement in the clinical care of skilled nursing facility patients, improves staff morale and patient resident satisfaction, and creates a positive marketing advantage." —John C. McMeekin, president and chief executive officer, Crozer-Keystone Health System

"How we care for the most ill, infirm, and frail elderly represents the central moral challenge confronting our society. This book contains a straightforward strategy to help meet this challenge through a creative and cost-effective transformation of long-term care. The authors have made a valuable contribution to all of us working in the fields of geriatrics and long-term and palliative care in our efforts to improve the quality of living and dying for the people we serve." —Ira Byock, M.D., author of Dying Well

"Lazer and Schwartz-Cassell show a sophisticated grasp of many aspects of long-term care. Adding Value to Long-Term Care is a very impressive, multilevel volume that should be of great usefulness to all professionals concerned about aging in the United States." —Robert M. Goisman, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

"This book presents a concept that is widely advocated but seldom put into practice. Its major strength lies in the clear, concise, 'how-to-implement' guide." —Sylvia Beatam, Health Care Administrator, Hyde Park Convalescent Home, MA

"We recently had the opportunity to review a wonderful book on long-term care, Adding Value to Long-Term Care. If you work in the long-term care setting, you don't want to miss reading this book. It identifies how important instituting a value system is to improve the quality of life for the residents and the care providers. Also included with the book are simple, easy to implement plans, with tools, which are also provided on disk." —--Journal of Nurse Practitioners

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Tools for making long-term care facilities into caring and desirable places to live and workWritten for health care administrators, medical directors, nursing executives, architects, and facility planners, Adding Value to Long-Term Care is a comprehensive resource that provides the tools and information needed to improve the clinical environment for residents, staff, and families; strengthen overall business operations; and secure a facility's financial future. This essential book and companion diskette are filled with a wealth of down-to-earth advice, helpful checklists, and easily reproducible forms-tools for effective business and clinical planning.Authors Dianne Lazer and Tobi Schwartz-Cassell present a comprehensive approach-The Value System-that will help to improve the structure of residents' days with a new model of programming, reenergize staff training and motivation, revitalize staff so they can engage productively with residents' families, and improve compliance with regulatory demands."Adding Value to Long-Term Care is a must read. The Value System offers vast improvement in the clinical care of skilled nursing facility patients, improves staff morale and patient resident satisfaction, and creates a positive marketing advantage."-John C. McMeekin, president and chief executive officer, Crozer-Keystone Health System"How we care for the most ill, infirm, and frail elderly represents the central moral challenge confronting our society. This book contains a straightforward strategy to help meet this challenge through a creative and cost-effective transformation of long-term care. The authors have made a valuable contribution to all of us working in the fields of geriatrics and long-term and palliative care in our efforts to improve the quality of living and dying for the people we serve."-Ira Byock, M.D., author of Dying Well"Lazer and Schwartz-Cassell show a sophisticated grasp of many aspects of long-term care

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Product Details

• Paperback: 355 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (June 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787951706
• ISBN-13: 978-0787951702
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,049,849 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An impressive comprehensive approach to long-term care!, December 25, 2000

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Karen B. Hirschman (University of Pennslyvania, School of Nursing) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adding Value to Long-Term Care (Paperback)

This book describes a step-by-step plan called The Value System which is a holistic approach to assessing and meeting the needs of each subsystem in the long-term care environment including the resident, the family, the care providers and the administration. It is an excellent resource that can provide long-term care administrators, nursing coordinators, rehabilitation specialists and insurers with creative, cost-effective options to meet the needs of their residents and staff in the changing long-term care environment.