CareNotes

Don’t Compromise Fire Safety While Responding to COVID-19

This is a guest article by Soraya Rahman, director of marketing at Performance Systems Integration, an OHCA business partner. As COVID-19 continues to change the world in which we live and work, many businesses are forced to send their workers home. Therefore, some employers and building managers may feel that maintaining and complying with fire... Read More
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Making Family Engagement a Priority Through a Pandemic (and Beyond)

This is a guest article by Christina Best, marketing manager at Care.ly, an OHCA business partner member. Since March, families in Oregon have not been permitted to visit their loved ones in long term care settings. This restriction has proven challenging for all involved—families, residents, and providers—but it has been an essential part of keeping... Read More
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Video: Regulations on Hazardous Medication Handling Presentation Teaser

In this video, Eric Lintner, a Spring Expo presenter and the Clinical Projects Director for Consonus Pharmacy, briefly describes some of the concepts he will cover in his Spring Expo session: Hazardous Medication Handling Regulations and What USP 800 Means for You and Your Community, March 7, 11:30am-12:30pm Join Eric and other clinical care experts... Read More
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2018 Culinary Academy for OHCA Members

This week, OHCA and our group purchasing partner Navigator Group Purchasing hosted the second Navigator Chef Academy in Portland. OHCA’s group purchasing program offers participating OHCA members savings on food, a wide variety of non-food items, and OHCA association dues. At the 2-day training, chefs from long term care facilities across Oregon learned techniques to enhance... Read More
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Oregon Finds Solutions for Aging Population with Long-term Care Services and Support

Below is an excerpt from a recent article we published in the Portland Business Journal titled “Oregon Finds Solutions for Aging Population with Long-term Care Services and Support.” Read the full article here. Each day, over 60,000 Oregonians receive care in their homes and in long-term care communities across the state, according to statistics compiled... Read More
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Photo Highlights from Spring Expo

Nearly 400 long term care professionals came together in Eugene to celebrate the theme “Lucky to be in LTC” at this year’s Spring Expo. Nurses, administrators, caregivers, operators, and business partners were able to attend the keynote speech “Talk to Me! Quality Care Through Staff to Staff Communication” by Diana Waugh, breakout education sessions, the... Read More
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Top Blog Posts of 2017

2017 was a great year for OHCA’s CareNotes blog. We published 40 articles, including many guest articles authored by OHCA members. Below are compiled the top three most read, and re-read, CareNotes blog articles from 2017. As you can see, readers clearly like photo highlights! We will keep these types of articles coming in 2018,... Read More
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Bridging the Communication Gap between Nurses and Pharmacists

This is a guest blog post by Terri Fagan, pharmacist and director of clinical services for Consonus Pharmacy, and Melissa Robinett, nurse consultant supervisor for Consonus Pharmacy. Current research indicates that ineffective communication among health care professionals is one of the leading causes of medical errors and patient harm, and there is a plethora of... Read More
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Article 13 “Individualized Care Approaches Reflected in Care Planning”

AHCA has published the report “Building Prevention into Every Day Practice: A Framework for Successful Clinical Outcomes.” The framework was built by the AHCA Clinical Practice Committee with the goal of developing solutions for reducing rehospitalizations and adverse events. Quality of care drives business success or failure in long term and post-acute care. This framework... Read More
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