Aging

Empowerment of Nursing Home Employees Could Lead to Better Care for Residents, Study Says

Published in Hospital Business Week, April 29th, 2007

Nursing homes in which staff members feel empowered to make management decisions without approval from supervisors and to negotiate over staffing levels, pay and benefits could result in better care for the nursing home residents, according to two separate studies by University of North Texas faculty members.

In a study that will be published in this month's "Journal of Aging and Health," Dr. James Swan, UNT professor of applied gerontology, analyzed the number of reported complaints and the severity of reported violations about quality of resident care at 1,155 nursing homes in California. As defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the violations...

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Source: Hospital Business Week (2007-04-29)

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