No matter your age or ability, you can be active and move! That’s the message a nationally known fitness expert recently brought to Alabama nursing home residents. Chris Freytag led an exercise and wellness class at Golden Living Center Oneonta as part of National Active Aging Week. […]
Lending a hand to a neighbor in need is a way of life in Alabama. It’s that spirit of giving that led people living and working in two north Alabama nursing homes to help charitable causes in their communities. […]
A new interactive map allows consumers to easily locate Alabama nursing homes. Users can search by city or zip code to find nursing homes in a specific geographic area. You can also search by the name of the nursing home. Clicking on a map “pin” displays the nursing home’s contact information and provides a link [...]
Over the past two years, Alabama nursing homes safely reduced the off-label use of antipsychotic medications by 18%. Surpassing the nationwide goal of a 15% reduction. The nationwide goal is part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes and the American Health Care Association’s (AHCA) Quality [...]
Alabama Nursing Home Association (ANHA) members today elected officers for 2015 at the association’s Annual Meeting in Birmingham. The incoming officers are: […]
A Jefferson County nursing home earned two designations to mark the high quality of care it provides. The recognitions come from both the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) and the federal government. After a very thorough and demanding annual survey, ADPH inspectors found that […]
Thirteen Alabama nursing homes earned the 2013-2014 Excellence in Action award from My InnerView by National Research Corporation. This honor recognizes long term care and senior living organizations that achieve the highest levels of satisfaction excellence, as demonstrated by overall resident or employee satisfaction scores that fall within the top [...]
Very few people live long enough to celebrate their 100th birthday. Even less play golf to celebrate a century of life. One Birmingham area nursing home resident recently hit the links to mark his special day. […]
A west Alabama nursing home with a long history of serving its community is being recognized for delivering high quality health care. Sumter Health & Rehab, located in York, has been designated as […]
Alabama’s nursing homes continue to show improvement in customer satisfaction among both nursing home residents and their family members. The success is highlighted in a blog post by a nationally recognized long term care researcher and the company charged with evaluating customer satisfaction in Alabama nursing homes. Read on to learn more about the improvement [...]
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