The movement to transform the country’s health care delivery system has been underway for several years now, and some moments of truth are approaching. The ultimate success of this monumental effort ...

Lisa R. Shugarman ( [email protected]) is the director of policy for the SCAN Foundation, in Long Beach, California. The SCAN Foundation’s mission is to advance the development of a sustainable ...

Skills for Health, Health Education England, and Skills for Care have announced a new Framework to support person-centered approaches for the health and social care workforce. This approach, outlined ...

This one hour WEBINAR facilitated by Kezia Scales, PhD will summarize the findings from a comparative ethnographic study of two mid-sized facilities that are attempting to implement person-centered ...

Susan E. Costella, RN, Clinical Director of Nursing, implemented person-centered care plans. Hospital Care teams are often challenged with overseeing fragile and elderly patients. Such challenges may ...

This article proposes a theoretical model of person-centered care (PCC) entitled the Preference-Based Model of Care that integrates the Theory of Human Motivation, Self-determination Theory, the ...

Empire BlueCross BlueShield to open new headquarters in Midtown Peconic Bay Medical Center gets $5M donation for expanded ED Speaker Adams outlines $8.7 million plan to increase funding for senior ...

Person-centered is the “new” terminology for care in skilled nursing facilities. That seems almost like an oxymoron. Wouldn’t the care for people always have been person-centered? The truthful answer ...

New ratings for Medicare health plans should spur a renewed focus on patient experience. Medicare’s star rating system for Medicare Advantage health plans is a powerful tool for driving plan behavior ...

Despite dementia incidence rising globally and the absence of a cure, there is poor understanding of the complexities of living with dementia and the multifactorial interventions needed to provide ...