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Nursing Home Leadership

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"Nursing Home Leadership" describes numerous useful leadership approaches. The book explains how to implement quality processes that could catapult a facility ahead of its competition.

BEST FEATURE The quality tools, checklists, and useful figures included in Dr. Ford's book help the reader apply practical solutions. Administrators will find the action steps at the end of each chapter particularly useful.

WEAKNESS The book includes composite case studies applicable to situations we face in our own operations. I would have liked to see the case composites expanded a bit more to include alternative solutions. It would have been useful if the book had described the best thing to do in each case. Examining and comparing the case studies to my own management style was a self-revealing process.

REVELATIONS I found a great list of tips on page 156 in the paragraph titled Successful Change Elements. You can use these tips when you're incorporating change and trying to make it go more smoothly.

UTILITY The book's material is directed primarily toward the administrator and director of nursing; however, a person in any leadership position in a nursing home would benefit. Executives of multiple facility chains will find useful material also.

RECOMMENDATION The book provides useful material to any new or experienced administrator, manager or supervisor as well as people in other types of supervisory positions in free-standing health care centers, physicians group practices and managed care provider companies.

From "Balance" magazine, December 1998

I had thought that no such book existed or would ever exist, but was I surprised when I found and read this jewel. Dr. Ford shows his experience in dealing with residents, staff, corporate oversight and government surveyors. This book details exactly how to develop a leadership program and to become a true effective leader. It exposes the phony types who say they lead but don't, as well as showing how to lead the staff into new levels of efficiency and morale. It should be required reading for administrators, directors of nursing, and other department heads. It is extremely instructive, giving may examples and case studies. Very easy to read and full of the meat with no fluff.

I am overwhelmed at Dr. Ford's grasp of the most critical areas of running a nursing facility. I thought I was an expert but I bow to Dr. Ford in every aspect of his work on facility leadership. I started using his techniques as soon as I read them, and they all work!

I can highly reccommend this book to anyone in management in a nursing home. It's worth its weight in gold.

- Julie Swanson, Lafayette, CA