E-Z answers."E-Z E-Z Engdahl-Zigangirov (bound) Answers" is a column of e-mailed responses to a question asked of CLTC CLTC Certified in Long-Term Care CLTC Community Long Term Care CLTC Chapter Leadership Training Conference readers. There's a different question every month, which appears at the bottom of this column. This month's "E-Z Answers" is brought to you through an unrestricted educational grant from Achieve Healthcare. Contemporary Long Term Care asks: How has the Internet helped increase productivity in your facility? We use the Internet for all of our product ordering, and we use t e HCFA HCFA abbr. Health Care Financing Administration HCFA, n.pr See Health Care Financing Administration. Web site a lot. Our company, Extendicare, actually coordinates our quality assurance through an Intranet. We use long term care sites, such as SNALF.com, to get information. The Internet helps me because I don't have time to read all the professional magazines as much as I used to--but I will look at their Web sites.--SHELLY BARNES, ADMINISTRATOR, CARE CENTER EAST, PORTLAND, ORE. The Internet has been very helpful in conducting research and quickly gathering information that might otherwise be very difficult to obtain. If I'm proposing a grant about doing a culture change in the nursing home and want to see what other facilities are doing, I can go online, type in a query, and then have 20 different places where I can gather information. In the past, you had to wait to have information mailed to you or spend hours in the library researching. Our Intranet is currently being built. We already have many of our policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental online.--KAREN BRINN, PUBLIC AFFAIRS Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. AND MARKETING DIRECTOR, ISABELLA GERIATRIC CENTER, NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of We don't have Internet in our facility. Our corporate headquarters handles all the computer decisions.--FELTON WOOTEN, ADMINISTRATOR, BEVERLY HEALTHCARE STARMOUNT, GREENSBORO, N.C. I go online to check out what's new on the market or to look up new regulations on the HCFA Web site. I also use the Internet if I want to benchmark with other nursing homes with our capacity. To benchmark pressure ulcers in other 150-bed facilities, I go to the Nursing Home Compare at Medicare.gov. We also have manuals online, such as the Joint Commission, the HCFA guidelines, the survey process, nursing home regulations. We installed them throughout our network, and it's very helpful--DELIA RUDIO, DON, MT. SINAI AND ST. FRANCIS NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER, MIAMI Miami, cities, United States Miami (mīăm`ē, –ə). 1 City (1990 pop. 358,548), seat of Dade co., SE Fla., on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River; inc. 1896. From a general business standpoint, Internet access See how to access the Internet. has been important. For example, it provides access to a wealth of information from HCFA that was very difficult to get in the past. --HENRY ROBERTS, ADMINISTRATOR, BUFORD MANOR NURSING HOME, BUFORD, GA. |
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