Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-term Care: What You Do Matters

"This book should be required reading for all who work in care settings and the text used for leadership and health care administration courses in colleges....Farrell's personal journal is as compelling as a good novel, except it is nonfiction! You want to laugh, cry, scream, and shout halleluiah."---Joanne Rader, R.N., B.S.N., M.N., Nurse Consultant, Rader Consulting

"The pages of this toolbox will be dog-eared from use. No more excuses! This works!"---Rose Marie Fagan, Co-founder and Founding Executive Director, Pioneer Network

"Nursing home leaders from the bedside to the boardroom need a `field guide' to help them make critical decisions and this book fills the gap."---Robyn Stone, Dr, PH., Senior Vice President for Research, LeadingAge, Washington, D.C.

Whether your care facility is flourishing or floundering, its success depends on what you do as administrator, director of nursing, or other leader. Your decisions and actions can improve staff performance and ensure high-quality care. The organization that prospers has staff who know you care. Based on the authors' abundant skill in guiding hundreds of nursing homes through organizational transformations, this book gives you the tools and strategies to achieve stable staffing, optimal care, and high census, and to become a leader in a thriving nursing home. Read one administrator's compelling account of a year making a difference in his nursing home, followed by elucidating examples, advice, and wisdom that come from decades of first-hand experience working with long-term care facilities.

This book is an essential resource for nursing home owners and corporate staff, administrators and directors of nursing, and all those committed to helping long-term care organizations to be better places to live and work.

David Farrell, M.S.W., L.N.H.A., is a licensed nursing home administrator and a nationally recognized leader in quality improvement, workforce retention, and culture change. He is currently Director of Organizational Development and Regional Director of Operations for a private nursing home management firm in California.
Cathie Brady, M.S., and Barbara Frank, M.P.A., have long histories of advocating for and contributing to improvements in long-term care and are co-founders of B&F Consulting, which works with nursing facilities, regional collaboratives, and statewide initiatives to stabilize staffing, individualize care, and improve organizational performance.

Continuing education units (CEUs) available to long-term care administrators and nurses. Visit www.achca.org/ or call 202-536-5120 for more information.