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
Susan Ryan, Senior Director, The Green House Project, Linthicum, MD Read More
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 [...]
Celebrate 52 women and earn 3 CE credits in 3 weeks
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 [...]
Opinion: Smaller is Better
In the Green House model, residents live in houses of just 10 to 12 people, each with their own room and bathroom. Read More
What Kind of Nursing Homes Have Had the Fewest COVID-19 Cases?
The best-known type of nontraditional, small house nursing home is the Green House model, which operates 300 homes across 32 states, each housing only 10 to 12 residents. In [...]
Moving on from COVID-19: We Need to Change the Nursing Home Model
Because some people do choose to receive long-term care in nursing homes, we must reimagine how we can offer higher quality care in residential settings. That does not mean [...]
Visionary ideas for senior living are great, but Mass. needs to act on making individual homes adaptable
Clearly, 2Life Communities, Carehaus, and the Green House Project are implementing visionary ideas about how we can live full lives as we age, enriched by neighbors, programs, and activities, [...]
Single Rooms Might Have Prevented 31% of Long-Term Care COVID-19 Deaths
Nursing homes that were less crowded, such as those built on the Green House model, had better outcomes and lower hospitalization costs, the study noted. Read More [...]
What makes a top long-term care leader? Panel of distinguished honorees share what it takes
A person’s mindset plays a big role in her development as a leader, added Green House Project Senior Director Susan Ryan. 'As a leader myself, I have wanted to [...]