Comments on: Small nursing homes and independent facilities may provide better care http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/07/04/small-nursing-home-quality/ Malpractice, Personal Injury & Accident Lawyers Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:38:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anthony Cirillo http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/07/04/small-nursing-home-quality/#comment-767 Anthony Cirillo Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:00:48 +0000 http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/07/04/small-nursing-home-quality/#comment-767 Bravo for starting your own services. I think you make a great point about getting the word out. Even more, people need to understand what it is like to grow old and aging issues in general so that they can approach situations later in life not in crisis but with education. Best, Anthony Cirillo, FACHE, ABC www.anthonyssong.com www.4wardfast.com Bravo for starting your own services. I think you make a great point about getting the word out. Even more, people need to understand what it is like to grow old and aging issues in general so that they can approach situations later in life not in crisis but with education.

Best,

Anthony Cirillo, FACHE, ABC
http://www.anthonyssong.com
http://www.4wardfast.com

]]> By: Debbie http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/07/04/small-nursing-home-quality/#comment-766 Debbie Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:07:08 +0000 http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/07/04/small-nursing-home-quality/#comment-766 I am a nurse who worked in nursing homes for 15 years. While there are a VERY few good ones, most are not. Staffing shortage and large patient to caregiver ratios provide the perfect environment for the neglect and abuse of nursing home residents. I finally quit the last nursing home I was employed with because they had recently changed management, fired and excellent nurse manager who had been there 18 years, and was very outspoken about the needs of the staff and residents that were not being addressed. So I decided to open my own Residential Care Home for the elderly, and hope to expand to 4 homes. Each home will have only 5 residents, with 2 caregivers in each home. I pay my caregivers above average for our area to ensure I can get the best and keep them in order to keep everything familiar to our residents. I can do this and still charge about half what the average nursing home charges. We need to get the word out to more people that there is an alternative to nursing home placement!!!! I am a nurse who worked in nursing homes for 15 years. While there are a VERY few good ones, most are not. Staffing shortage and large patient to caregiver ratios provide the perfect environment for the neglect and abuse of nursing home residents. I finally quit the last nursing home I was employed with because they had recently changed management, fired and excellent nurse manager who had been there 18 years, and was very outspoken about the needs of the staff and residents that were not being addressed.

So I decided to open my own Residential Care Home for the elderly, and hope to expand to 4 homes. Each home will have only 5 residents, with 2 caregivers in each home. I pay my caregivers above average for our area to ensure I can get the best and keep them in order to keep everything familiar to our residents. I can do this and still charge about half what the average nursing home charges.

We need to get the word out to more people that there is an alternative to nursing home placement!!!!

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