Meeting the Leadership Challenge In Long-Term Care

What you do really does matter! This book is a must read for nursing home administrators, directors of nursing, and others in leadership positions in long-term care. Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care offers practical, commonsense, easy-to-implement approaches that will yield immediate positive results and set your organization on a better course.
If you ever feel overwhelmed by regulatory, financial, or corporate constraints or have succumbed to the myth that staff turnover is an inevitable cost of doing business, then let this book guide you out of the miasma. Learn, for example, how to achieve real staff satisfaction that translates to successful organizational performance: high quality, high census, good surveys, and a healthy bottom line.

Based on extensive on-the-ground experience with implementing and guiding hundreds of nursing homes through organizational transformations, the authors offer advice and wisdom (and even a peek into the personal journal of a turnaround administrator) that can make your organization more successful, effective and stable, whether it is currently struggling or thriving. Just a few of the take-home lessons from this constructive guide include how to

• Get and keep the right staff
• Reduce staff stress and promote solid teamwork
• Build a positive chain of leadership that brings out the best in the staff
• Convert money spent now on turnover into resources to support stability
• Improve corporate support with an instructive “Stop Doing List”
• Use quality improvement and culture change practices to achieve high performance
• Increase staff, family, and resident satisfaction

Widely recognized as experts in the long-term care field, authors David Farrell, Cathie Brady, and Barbara Frank combine their years of experience in nursing home leadership and management to create a resource that can lead the field forward.