When GHP opened the 200th Green House home in Pompano Beach, Fla. in 2016, the celebration was especially sweet for the residents who made it all possible. Starting in 2006, members of the John Knox [...]
From the very beginning of The Green House Project, stories from elders, caregivers, and families validated the decision to reimagine and transform the traditional nursing home. But anecdotal evidence can only go so far toward [...]
While GHP doesn't directly operate any of the nearly 400 Green House homes across the country, our provider partners form a vital, thriving network of organizations looking to provide truly empowering, life-affirming care. Since 2012, [...]
When the Green House model was first implemented in 2003, it was still very much an experiment based on the observations and theories of Bill and Jude Thomas and their colleagues. While the core values [...]
From the very beginning, education and training have been at the center of the Green House movement. It’s not enough to build small homes; creating a truly elder-directed environment also requires a solid educational foundation [...]
The Green House model was initially developed as a replacement for traditional long-term nursing homes, but partners quickly realized that the core values of Real Home, Meaningful Life, and Empowered Staff could apply to multiple [...]
The Green House Project received a significant boost in 2006 when the first academic research into the model’s efficacy by Judith Rabig, Bill Thomas, Rosalie Kane, Lois Cutler, and Steve McAlilly was published in The [...]
When Methodist Senior Services opened those first Green House homes in 2023, the organization was taking a major leap of faith: The concept was just two years old and had never before been operationalized. The [...]
Private rooms alone won’t remedy nursing home system’s shortcomings. “The Green House model is a lot more than just the building,” says Alex Spanko. “It’s about the culture, too.”
“The only question,” Cook said, “is whether they will take the harsh lessons of the pandemic to heart and implement empowering care models such as Green House — or choose to ignore the experiences of elders and decades of research and build the exact same types of traditional, outdated buildings that failed too many Canadians before, during and after COVID-19.”