Clinical/Administrative

These publications and sites reflect the nursing home's core mission of delivering high quality care while maintaining quality of life for the residents and patients served. The long term care team provides care to diverse populations with multiple comorbidities, disease processes, cognitive and functional limitations, with a variety of specific needs. Nursing homes care for post-operative patients, patients with neurological, orthopedic, infectious diseases and/or Alzheimer- and dementia-residents. Young and old persons alike needing short-stay care, long-term rehab, permanent residence, palliative and hospice care reside in today's skilled nursing facility.

• Opportunities for Nursing Homes to Engage with their Local Medicare Quality Improvement Organization


• Alzheimer's disease Training 


• Baker Act Guidance


• Bed Rails: Clinical Guidance for Assessment and Implementation


• Dignity Protocols & Best Practices as Presented at January Joint Training with Agency for Health Care Administration


• End of Life


• Falls Guidelines, Agency for Health Care Administration, July 2002


• Geriatric Nursing: GeroNurseOnline - best practice information on care for older adults


• Infection Control: Guidelines for Control of Antibiotic Resistant Organisms 


• Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination


• Influenza (Flu) Information/Vaccincation 2005/2006


• Medication Regimen Simplification 


• The Beers Criteria of Inappropriate Medications for Elderly Nursing Home Residents


• Mental Illness/Mental Retardation Preadmission Screening Checklist (Search for Form #CF-MED 3057 or by name MI/MR Preadmission Screening Checklist)


• Pain: Guidelines for the Assessment and Management of Pain, Agency for Health Care Administration, July 2002


• Pain Management Policy Guide by Dr. Howard Tuch


• Pressure Ulcers Guidelines, Agency for Health Care Administration, July 2002


• Public Guardianship