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Staff satisfaction ratings were significantly higher at the homes that participated in a 2002 resident-centered care (RCC) than at those that did not, according to Culture Change in a For-Profit Nursing Home Chain: An Evaluation. But much of that difference may be due to the fact that Beverly Healthcare chose some of its best nursing [...]

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Talk about robots in long-term care always makes me uneasy. It’s partly suspicion that this is just another way to avoid dealing with the growing direct-care workforce crisis: look, Ma, no workforce! Crisis solved. But it’s also a reaction to how robot engineers tend to look at direct-care work. Like most people who’ve never done [...]

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Watch the Fox 44 News video The forecast was for somewhere between 6 and 12 inches of snow and the roads were bad on the morning of the town meeting with Senator Sanders. I was worried about attendance, but by 10:45 or so we had about 50 people, which felt like a victory in and of itself. [...]

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