College Students Learn Life Lessons from Ms. Alabama Nursing Home
From the sounds of laughter filling the room, you would have never known seven decades separated the speaker from her audience. That was the scene Thursday night in a University [...]
ANHA to Focus on Recognizing Health Care Quality
As part of the Alabama Nursing Home Association’s new focus on recognizing health care quality, four members recently completed intensive training to become examiners for a national health care quality [...]
Nursing Center Finds Success by Taking a New Approach
A strategic effort to change the culture at a Bessemer nursing home is achieving results. The process began almost four years ago when Trina Vines became administrator at Oak Trace [...]
Methodist Homes Breaks Ground for Transformation of Birmingham and Dothan Centers
Fair Haven Retirement Community in Birmingham and Wesley Manor Retirement Community in Dothan have broken ground for physical and cultural transformations. The groundbreaking ceremonies theme was “Redefining Home: Reframing, Renewing [...]
Nursing Home Employees, Others Receive College Scholarships
Seven Alabama nursing home employees are among 32 college students receiving nursing school scholarships from the Alabama Nursing Home Association (ANHA) Education Foundation. […]
Catching Up with Ms. Alabama Nursing Home
Ms. Alabama Nursing Home Sylvia Holland ended 2015 on a high note and is off to a busy start in 2016. Recently, she’s made appearances in Dothan, Tuscaloosa and Demopolis. [...]
A Track Record of Quality Health Care
Englewood Health Care Center is building an impressive track record of providing high quality health care. The skilled nursing care center earned a perfect score on its latest government inspection. [...]
A Heaping Helping of Good Food and Good Health
Good food goes a long way towards good health. That’s especially true in nursing homes were residents live long-term in their home away from home. Good food leads to a [...]
National Nursing Home Week 2016 Theme Announced
Located in big cities and small towns all across the country, each nursing home is an active community. The centers are filled with residents, rehab patients, families, volunteers and health [...]
Another Success Story for Thomasville
The City of Thomasville is often called southwest Alabama’s success story because of its economic development track record. Now, the town of 4,200 people can boast of having one of [...]
Enhancing Quality of Life: Celebrating Activity Professionals Week
Activity professionals play a key role in enhancing a nursing home resident’s overall quality of life. Unknown to many is how much more in-depth the job is than planning events [...]
6 Steps for a Successful Care Transition from a Hospital
By: Care Conversations Trips to the hospital can be a disrupting experience for aging adults. For nursing home residents, hospitalization may lead to a loss of independence upon return to the [...]
