Contemporary Long Term Care articles from April 2002

Contemporary Long Term Care archives from April 2002

My wife's eye. (Editor's Notebook).
April 1, 2002... My HOME HAS BEEN A SHAMBLES SINCE October. We've been stepping over misplaced kitchenware and weaving through a maze of furniture. I'm not entirely sure I even remember what the floor in my living room used to look like, since I can't see it...

Edging toward 'the cliff': SNFs may face 17% Medicare cut. (News Fronts).(skilled nursing facilities)
April 1, 2002... UNLESS CONGRESS INTERVENES, TEMPORARY Medicare givebacks granted to nursing homes in 1999 and 2000 will expire Sept. 30, 2002, resulting in a 17 percent cut in Medicare payments. Many long term care providers are calling this dramatic drop-off...

Get 'cart'-ed away: a program that brings the dining room to your residents. (Food Service).
April 1, 2002... MEALTIME IS MUCH MORE THAN THE simple intake of food. It is an integral part of our residents' daily lives. That is why the vision of dining-services programs in long term care facilities is to provide optimum nutritional care in an environment...

Award-winning designs reflect 'spirit of being'. (2002 Order of Excellence Awards).
April 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION This year, as our jurors for the Order of Excellence in Architecture & Design pondered the merits of 34 senior-living project entries, Jury Chairman Rob Volzer saw two significant trends emerge. First, living spaces for...

Architecture Renovation: Notre Dame du Lac. (2002 Order of Excellence Awards).
April 1, 2002... Worcester, Massachusetts Unifying the whole It sounds almost political: preserve, protect, build, and unite. Yet those were the goals for the exemplary architectural re-creation of Notre Dame du Lac in Worcester, Mass., part of a...

Architecture Renovation. (2002 Order of Excellence Awards).
April 1, 2002... TRADITIONS OF WAYLAND Wayland, Massachusetts Effective estate planning The architectural roots at Traditions of Wayland, an assisted living residence, begin with a Georgian Revival brick mansion, a stately house known as the Paine...

Architecture & Interior design Renovation. (2002 Order of Excellence Awards).
April 1, 2002... MAPLEWOOD NURSING HOME, INC. Webster, New York Raising the bar for SNF suites In a skilled nursing facility where demand for private rooms exceeded supply, expansion became the operative word, creating luxurious new suites and...

Architecture & Interior design Renovation. (2002 Order of Excellence Awards).
April 1, 2002... ROCKWOOD RETIREMENT COMMUNITY Spokane, Washington Morphing to modern need Beyond major renovation, this project represents what our jury calls "transformation." The overhaul of Rockwood Retirement Community erases a nursing home's...

Interior design Renovation. (2002 Order of Excellence Awards).
April 1, 2002... THE FOUNTAINS AT RIVERVUE Tuckahoe, New York Showcasing comfort and warmth At the Fountains at RiverVue, designers achieved an overall warmth in interior schemes uncharacteristic of most of the nation's assisted living residences....

Best practices: the focus on lifestyle, culture, and wellness is why our judges found these projects worthy of citations for best practice. (2002 Order of Exclusive Awards).
April 1, 2002... Focused dementia-program space MASONIC PATHWAYS Alma, Mich. Interior design: FroggLeg Designs, Bannister, Mich. At Masonic Pathways, a continuing-care setting serving more than 450 residents, design innovation comes in the form of...

A financial plan for seniors: Survival and success in a new economic era. (Assisted Living).
April 1, 2002... LAST MONTH'S COLUMN DISCUSSED THE NEW ECONOMIC ERA that has begun for seniors as their investment returns have plummeted in the past 12 to 18 months. One-year CDs and Treasury Bill returns dropped by approximately 51 percent and 59 percent,...