Nontraditional nursing homes have almost no coronavirus cases. Why aren’t they more widespread?
The [Green House] model has been praised by academics and doctors and seems far better suited than traditional facilities to stave off the spread of infection and the isolation [...]
What Can Be Done To Make Nursing Homes Safer
Well, one idea that's got a lot of currency now has been around for nearly 20 years. It's called the Green House Project. These are nursing homes with an [...]
Editorial: Seniors deserve a life worth living during the COVID-19 pandemic
When—and if—institutionalized care becomes necessary, there are alternatives to warehousing in large buildings. The innovative Green House Project, for example, provides individual “houses” where small groups of 10 to [...]
How Covid-19 Will Change Aging and Retirement
As the pandemic wreaks havoc on our mental and physical health, it is also quietly reshaping how Americans will face retirement and old age in the years to come. [...]
Beyond Goal Driven Care: Autonomy, Meaning, and Belonging in Nursing Home Care
There have been many attempts to apply a more human lens to nursing home care. There is a 20-year history of a culture change movement in nursing homes directed [...]
Facility establishes ‘hug tent’ to safely reunite residents, families
Colorado-based nonprofit healthcare organization TRU Community Care teamed up with Hover Senior Living Community’s [Green House] skilled nursing facility to create a “hug tent” that allows visitors and residents [...]
Nursing homes rolling out “hug rooms” amid pandemic
Outside of the Katherine and Charles Hover Green Houses, a retirement community in Longmont, Colo., they have set up a tent with four-millimeter plastic and armholes so families can [...]
Coronavirus shows that seniors need better housing options | Opinion
Indeed, the nation has a model, the architects said. It’s called the Green House Project, a 17-year-old non-profit organization with 300 homes in 23 states, including Michigan. It hopes [...]
Nursing homes face uncertain future: Fear of infection, isolation turning people away
Most prefer to remain at home, but for those who need more care, the nursing homes of the future that will attract them are much more likely to be [...]
Talking Transformation Long Term Care Homes
Talking Transformation Blog: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! As of October 2020, there were 11 long-term care homes in Ontario that had either adopted or were in the process of adopting [...]
Financial incentives, elimination of regulatory barriers may help expand availability of small-house nursing homes: report
The authors also encouraged state policymakers to consider updating their CON laws and construction moratoria for nursing homes to allow for greater innovation in the marketplace. They also stressed the [...]
Nursing Homes That Feel Like Home Help Avoid COVID
Jamie’s Place is one of 300 homes across the U.S. that are part of the Green House Project, an innovative model for residential care. Green House Project homes house [...]
Innovative models pave the way for safe, high-quality long-term care homes
Experts say there’s no one single solution but point to innovative models to implement or learn from. One promising alternative that is drawing international attention is The Green House [...]
Opinion: It’s time to shift our thinking on long-term care
Third, we need more community housing options for those who require congregate care. These can be homelike settings where people have choice and connections with family, friends and community. These [...]
‘A watershed moment’: Amid the despair over the state of LTC in the province, there is hope things will get better
A recent article in the Journal of American Medical Directors Association found that “non-traditional small house nursing homes” in the U.S. had fewer COVID infections and deaths ... Most [...]
Associations Between Quality of Life and Outdoor Access in Nursing Homes: A Cross-Sectional Study
Newer models of NH care, such as the Green House model and the Eden Alternative, place increased emphasis on providing person-centered care, encouraging independence in residents, and emphasize principles [...]
Time To Rethink Long Term Care Facilities
Kaleigh Alkenbrack outlines several innovative approaches in this HealthyDebate article. She points to The Green House Project in the US as a sustainable example. Instead of a large, multi-unit [...]
Nursing homes were broken long before Covid-19
The Green House Project includes a long-term care facility in Memphis called Ave Maria, which has nine cottages and 100 beds staffed by skilled nurses. In each cottage, the [...]
McKnight’s unveils 2021 Women of Distinction Hall of Honor inductees
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Green House nursing homes kept COVID cases low via small sizes, private rooms, universal workers
Through July, the Green House Project reported its homes had just 32.5 positive cases per 1,000 residents, almost five times fewer than the national average for nursing homes. COVID [...]
Green House homes called ‘promising model’ for nursing home reinvention. But are they replicable?
To hear John Ponthie tell it, you have to visit a Green House Project nursing home to truly know what they’re like ... 'This doesn't look like a nursing [...]
The Changing Culture of Nursing Homes
The Green House model involves setting up small houses to house 6-12 residents. The focus is on providing home care as well as treatment through a consistent, well trained [...]
What Families Want from Nursing Home Reform Post-COVID: No More Lockdowns and a Seat at the Table
To move forward, besides private rooms and private bathrooms, we need to get to smaller buildings along the lines of the Green House Project, or something that is more [...]
Green House facilities report lower COVID cases, deaths — even among outliers
Differences were most notable among the outliers, wrote lead author Sheryl Zimmerman, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Only one-quarter of Green House/small nursing homes [...]
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The third session, “Secrets to career success,” will be from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. ET and will feature six 2021 McKnight’s Women of Distinction speaking about mentoring, networking, developing [...]
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COVID In Colorado: ‘Hug Tent’ Helps Bring Loved Ones Together During Pandemic
TRU Community Care created a “hug tent” on Friday for residents at the Hover Green Houses senior living community so their loved ones could embrace them, in some cases for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.
Southern Administrative Services Developing $10.9 Million Facility In Walnut Ridge
We are declaring our vision that a Green House Cottage facility should be no more than 60 miles from any community and any family in Arkansas.
Columnist John Paradis: How a ‘small home’ model might work at Soldiers’ Home
The panelists noted that small home designs are much better equipped to deal with the pandemic than larger environments and have fared much better than their counterparts in the mitigation of COVID.
OPINION: In order to understand fully how the U.S. has ended up in this tragic situation, we need to take a broader view of long-term care.
The number of Green House facilities is small, with just over 300 facilities in several states, but we have enough information about their operations and costs to know that they can remain affordable.
Here’s What Michigan Nursing Homes That Escaped Coronavirus Did Right
Despite its size and variety of housing arrangements, Rest Haven of Holland has stayed clear of coronavirus in all three levels of care it provides.
Nursing Home To Resume Visits With New Guidelines
Phillips said the entire staff and residents at the Green House Cottages of Southern Hills were tested in June, which was the second time they have been tested this year. She said all tests came back negative.
Culture Change In Long-Term Care: An Opportunity
There have been a number of innovative models that have embraced this culture change in the U.S., Europe, Australia and recently in Ontario. Examples of these are the Eden Alternative, Green House Project, Butterfly Homes and Hogewey Villages.
Green House model homes will replace Windemere
The Green House model was first developed by Bill Thomas, a geriatrician who re-envisioned what home care means for elders. Instead of housing elders in a close-quarters space, the Green House model orients home care toward independence and freedom, while providing the optimum level of assistance.
From COVID-19 ground zero, Dr. Jim Wright of Canterbury offers vision for dementia patients
“If I were going to do something different, I would have a nursing home that had enough staff around the clock, all the time,” said Wright, standing next to Dr. Danny Avula, director of the Henrico and Richmond Health Districts. “I would have a nursing home where everyone had private rooms. I would have a nursing home where there was greater access to the outdoors.”