Changing nursing home culture
Listen to Passamaquoddy Lodge board president Caroline Davies and Nova Scotia Centre on Aging director Janice Keefe discuss the power of a proposed new Canadian Green House community set for groundbreaking in 2023!
Changes COVID-19 Brought to Long-Term Care Facilities
"The Green House Project is an innovative, nationally recognized model in LTCFs that creates small homes that recognize the individuality of residents and respect their autonomy, choice, privacy, and dignity, yet are also affordable."
How smaller long-term care homes can help address big elder-care issues
"We get a lot of referrals. ... We get people from other counties and other states. They come here and they're like, 'When I retire, when I have to go into a home, this is where I want to be because it's so homelike, it's so personal.'"
Small nursing homes challenge what senior care looks like
Go inside a Green House community outside of Toledo, Ohio with a reporter and crew from Canada looking to find alternatives to institutional long-term care.
There are benefits to thinking ‘small’ for Alberta continuing care facilities
“We must fundamentally change the way we provide elder care because we absolutely cannot have a repeat of the illness and death that COVID-19 caused in nursing homes and other institutions,” says Ryan.
The senior living industry will never be the same
"The Green House model costs no more to the consumer than traditional facilities and offers a philosophy of care that emphasizes quality of life, emotional well-being, and elder choice. That has led to everything from better clinical outcomes to higher levels of family and elder satisfaction and lower depression rates among elders."
Could the Pandemic Transform Nursing Homes?
Those that build Green Houses or provide private rooms, for example, could get paid a higher rate from Medicaid, John Ponthie adds. The government could also offer more low-interest construction financing.
We know the nursing home is broken. Here’s how to fix it
By Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Steve McAlilly, and Susan Ryan The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the problems baked into America’s nursing home infrastructure. These issues – low pay for frontline staff, woefully outdated buildings, “semi-private” rooms [...]
The Green House Project Takes on New Relevance
This not-for-profit organization committed to redefining traditional nursing homes has garnered extensive media exposure for defying the odds.
The Green House Project Announces Hire of Ann McLaughlin as Project Coach
LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, MD., November 12, 2021 – The Green House Project (GHP) today announces the hire of Ann McLaughlin in the role of Project Coach. McLaughlin comes to GHP with a deep and unique perspective [...]