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Article: Training the greatest performers on earth.(long term care facility administrators)
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- Nursing Homes
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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Long-term care facilities and circuses have much in common. This analogy is certain to raise some eyebrows, but consider the similarities. The ringmaster of a circus oversees separate rings, each with its own actions and activities, just as an administrator monitors nursing, financing, physical plant and other departments in the organization. Like circuses, long-term care facilities attempt to keep all the people--in this case, residents, families, staff, financial resources and the government--happy. But, while a ringmaster usually has performers to help run his show, long-term care administrators are not always so lucky.
Indeed, administrators themselves must ...