A clean, functioning and up-to-date community is your best bet to face any emergency, and a computerized maintenance management system gives you all the tools needed for documentation, task coordination and internal communications.
Your senior living community’s emergency operation plan can help your team manage COVID-19 with the same level of proficiency that it operates at during other emergency situations.
It’s time to prepare for a potential business interruption or employee quarantine issue now, ahead of potential liability.
Your community is about to go on trial in the court of public opinion. Here are some tips to communicate before and after COVID-19 cases are detected, to ensure that you are positioned to weather the storm.
An assisted living operator in Florida is predicting the closure of several assisted living communities there if the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration moves forward with plans to penalize assisted living communities and nursing homes that aren’t in compliance with the Sunshine State’s emergency power plans rule by the end of the year.
Many LTC pharmacies and senior living and care communities again are struggling to ensure that residents’ medication regimens are not interrupted in the event of a natural disaster. If faced with a similar situation, here are eight keys to keep in mind.
Senior living organizations with communities in certain parts of California put their disaster preparedness plans into action over the weekend as wildfires spread.
Some senior living operators in California are preparing for another potential planned power outage that could come late Wednesday evening, last several days and affect parts of 15 counties.
A University of South Florida study into evacuation versus sheltering-in-place decisions at assisted living communities and skilled nursing facilities in response to hurricanes won’t be complete until 2021, but some things already are becoming apparent to the researchers.
Although Hurricane Dorian was basically a near-miss for Florida, that didn’t stop the Florida Sun Sentinel from running a story that was largely critical of generator-free senior living communities across the state.
