The Nursing Home Podcast

Moe Rabi, COO of Senior Care Therapy, transitioned from selling DME (durable medical equipment) to his current role. He explains the transition, as a natural move from helping to helping. 

People do business with people. We need a personal relationship with the business we are working with. We are social animals and we crave genuine human connection. 

Personal profiles have much more engagement than company pages because of the human connection. 

 

Resources

• The Love Your 9 to 5 Show¬†
• Senior Care Therapy

*** we apologize for the audio quality on this episode but this was too good not to share :) ***

The nursing homes have always been the dumping grounds for the hospitals.

Patients that cannot be safely discharged back to the community find themselves discharged to nursing homes.  

This introduces multiple challenges in the nursing home setting when new residents are introduced into a setting of the traditions 'little old ladies' of the nursing home. 

Nursing home operators need to train their staff to identify and manage their substance abuse residents. This will empower them and support them to manage these difficult residents. 

 

Learn more about Marcia Amarsingh

• On LinkedIn
• Renewal Sober Living
• Amarsingh Integrated Counseling Services
• [email protected]
• (508) 981-3301

There are lots of ways to show appreciation to the folks in the nursing homes:

• Send food - doughnuts and coffee goes a long way to boost morale.
• Hazard Pay- nursing home owners can adjust their pay to reflect this challenging work situation.
• Treat the staff like the heroes that they truly are :)

What the nursing homes can/should do: 

• community relations is everything. Create, maintain and cultivate real relationships.
• over communicate with your community
• post on social media consistently sharing your SNF's events.

Check out Dr. El's site here! 

Here's the McKnight's article that connected Dr. El with The Nursing Home Podcast. 

Outbreaks were happening even after facilities were closely monitoring the residents' temperatures. The challenge was getting ahead of this problem. 

Here's the NY Times article by Dr. Levitan explaining the strange nature of Covid19 pneumonia having almost no symptoms at all until its too late to intervene. 

After digging through the data, Shalom and his team discovered that the oxygen levels had significantly decreased up to 2 weeks prior to the onset of high fevers. 

Action on this information, operators have the ability to detect the Covid19 and address it while they still can. Days or even weeks prior to the onset of any detectable fevers. 

Visit MegaDataHS.com for the full infographic here

Practical steps to manage Coronavirus:

• Sick staff should really stay home. (we know that nurses make for the worst patients. They'll come to work not feeling well because of how greatly they care for their patients. Now is not the time for that.)
• Use proper protective equipment including full face shields.
• If possible, assign one staff member to care for a positive coronavirus patients to minimize the traffic in the room.¬†
• Practice your infection control policy. For real.¬†

 

CONTACT MEGAN

• Email Megan at [email protected]
• nodmd.com

Nursing homes have been hesitant to embrace social media for a variety of reasons. HIPAA concerns, legal reasons and of course marketing concerns.

What many centers don’t realize is that content will appear online regardless if they allow it or not. Pages are auto-generated for facilities where residents and even employees are already posting information.

By fully engaging on the various social channels, the facility can then control the conversation and direct their raving fans to share the positive experiences. 

CONTACT JONAH TODAY!

Text:  (551) 587-1850

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Lots of the regulations governing the telemedicine space were relaxed in an effort to bring the skilled physician care to the patients in real time. 

This is a great step forward in the med/tech space and we hope this will have a lasting impact on the industry. 

Brad and Dr. Carpenter point out that telemedicine is simply a technology to connect physicians with patients. However, the bottom line is that it's the clinical team behind the tech that make all the difference. 

Sound Physicians was started as a physician group and will remain just that. Pairing the expertise of such a team with the new tech is a win/win partnership. 

Click HERE for the Special COVID19 Offer - be up and running with telemedicine oversight for your SNF in just 72 hours!

In this episode we meet...

Ari Shabat, CEO of Reside Admissions, a new innotive onboarding solution for nursing homes to streamline the admissions process. 

The software asks simply worded questions to fill complex forms on the back end. 

Really fascinating episode! 

Watch the demo reel at here to best understand the power of Reside Admissions. 

In this episode...

We meet Eva Vennari where she gives us the tools to actually look after ourselves while caring for those we love most. 

Reach out to  Eva at TheElevateInstitute.com 

 

In this episode...

We meet, Steven Zaidman, a Licensed Medicare Insurance Specialist, and he walks through the process of planning and paying for long term care. 

Many times the children of the patient are hit with this cost unexpectedly. They have very limited intimate knowledge of their parents finances and sometimes in for some surprises. 

Having a conversation earlier on with parents regarding long term care insurance can go a long way to alleviate this eventuality. 

 

Contact Steven:

[email protected]

Phone 732-497-2273 (Work)