Long Term Care Monitoring Tools

About the Book

Meal time is an opportunity for residents to experience good "Quality of Life" in their "home", while they interact with each other and with the staff. These monitoring tools will help the staff gauge whether the residents are having a great meal time experience, a good meal time experience, or a not so good meal time experience. When surveyors come to your facility this is one of the important aspects of care they observe. These tools will help you before the surveyors walk through your doors.

About the Author

Nora J. Wellington, MBA, NHA, is a long term care consultant, Founder and CEO of N Wellington Associates LLC (www.nwellingtonassociates.com). Wellington has more than twenty-five years of long term care (LTC) experience, including nineteen years as a nursing home administrator who operated and managed skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities.

Wellington was fortunate to be hired to help a hospital open a brand new subacute/skilled nursing unit fifteen years ago. She worked with the director of nursing, and the hospital ptoject director to develop the required clinical and administtarive policies and procedures to present to the District of Columbia Department of Health for approval.