New Directions in Health Care
Summary: New Directions in Health Care aims to bring the work of our programs to life though audio interviews with the health care professionals, administrators, policymakers, advocates, and patients on the frontlines of health care.
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Podcasts:
Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes is a group of long-term care providers, caregivers, consumers, and others that has engaged almost half of the nursing homes in the U.S. in its quality improvement efforts. For this episode, Emily Schifrin talked with the organization leadership and frontline workers to find out what has made the campaign so successful.
Residents, families, and staff say that Green Houses, based on a radically different model for long-term care created by geriatrician Bill Thomas, M.D., make warm, wonderful homes for elders. In this episode, Emily Schifrin visits two new Green Houses, in San Angelo, Texas, for elders with Alzheimer's disease.
