Green House Newsletter

April 2012

In This Issue
White Oak Cottages Opens Their First Green House Assisted Living Home
The Green House Project contributes to life safety regulatory improvements
Clinical Support Spotlight: April is Occupational Therapy Month
Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio shares "5 P.E.A.R.L.S of Green House Living"
The Green House Project at AHCA Independent Owners Conference in New Orleans
Thrive Research: Culture Change Sustainability in the Green House Model
Highlighting the Green House Project Team: Anna Ortigara, Resource Development Director

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White Oak Cottages Open Their First Green House Assisted Living Home

  

Located on the Fox Hill campus in Westwood, Massachusetts, the White Oak Cottages Green House homes are a new concept in assisted living memory care.  "The White Oak Cottages are homes where people want to ...

 

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The Green House Project Announces: The Interactive Brochure!

 

The Green House Project is dynamic, interactive and cutting edge-and the ways that we communicate and share our message must align with that mentality. That is why, There is an App for That! That is right, in The App Store ... 

 

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The Green House Project contributes to life safety regulatory improvements  

   

Recently, CMS announced important life safety regulatory changes that will support the creation of home in long-term care settings. All of these changes have been approved by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and are effective immediately. It is important ... 

 

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Clinical Support Spotlight: April is Occupational Therapy Month  

 

What do National Peach Cobbler Day, Thomas Jefferson's birthday, and Occupational Therapy (OT) Month have in common? If you guessed that they're all celebrated in April- you've got it! While delicious cobbler and our former president are by no means ...

 

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Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio shares "5 P.E.A.R.L.S of Green House Living" 

   

Our Project Implementation Team (PIT) was given the instruction to develop "Three Key Messages" that would help explain succinctly what our Green House homes are all about.  We did our best to narrow it down to three but couldn't quite ...

 

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The Green House Project at AHCA Independent Owners Conference in New Orleans

 

The Green House Project is looking forward to the opportunity to participate in the  AHCA-NCAL Independent Owners Conference. The Green House Project is a radically new, national model for skilled nursing care that returns control, dignity and a sense of ...

 

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Thrive Research: Culture Change Sustainability in the Green House Model 

 

   

One of the broad concepts that long term care researchers, practitioners, and consumers are interested in is culture change. It's hard to find a long-term care setting that doesn't claim to be engaged in culture change in some way  Many see it as a shift from the...

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Highlighting the Green House Project Team: Anna Ortigara, Resource Development Director

 

Anna began her work as a Registered Nurse in the field of pediatrics, but within a couple of years her focus quickly changed to elders, all thanks to a job with a large corporate firm.  In the early 80's Proctor ... 

 

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Published monthly to share information with providers, elders and others about THE GREEN HOUSE® Project, a new and innovative approach to long-term, skilled nursing care. To learn more, visit www.thegreenhouseproject.org.
  

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