Get Ready for a Wild Ride!
08/21 & 08/22 Wharton Leadership Retreat
Thanks to the trailblazing by Live Oak, The Eden Alternative, The Mount and others, there are lots of examples within the industry today to help guide nursing homes on their culture change journey. There is no “cookie-cutter” model that fits everyone-every home must decide for itself what mix of elements will work best in its own unique environment. After all there is no place like home.
Nonetheless, there is a replicable process for creating a shared vision and moving forward as an organization to create more home-like environment. The process includes six phases: the study circle, the design team, skills assessment and development, team development, implementation, and evaluation.
The phases of culture change by Action Pact, Inc.
Wharton’s leadership team went on a two-day leadership retreat, including whitewater rafting on the Ocoee, low ropes course, and other obstacle races, to better understand that although the next year is going to feel like a wild whitewater rafting ride, with teamwork and continuous communication we will create a warm and secure home that nurtures the human spirit!
Kay Brown, Robin Gray, Patricia Rogers, Sharon Blankenship, Tammy Wagner, Sherry Knox, Lee Skinner, Tammie Underwood, Lisa Norris
07/26/08 Uplands receives $35, 033 Baptist Healing Trust Grant, Spring 2008. This grant will allow the Uplands teams to receive training on the concepts of Radical Loving Care as they move to a new model of care for their residents. Managers will model an open-hearted leadership style in which they care for their staff as they wish their staff to care for the elders and use a "serve and support" rather than a "command and control" style of management. http://www.baptisthealingtrust.org/grants/recipients.php
http://www.crossville-chronicle.com/archivesearch/local_story_262163624.html
07/09/08 Wharton Care Center's construction plans are approved by the State of TN.
05/31/08 Uplands Retirement Village joins the Eden Alternative registry http://www.edenalt.org/
05/09/08 Official Wharton Care Center groundbreaking
http://www.crossville-chronicle.com/archivesearch/local_story_142070844.html
07/09/08 Wharton Care Center's construction plans are approved by the State of TN.
05/31/08 Uplands Retirement Village joins the Eden Alternative registry http://www.edenalt.org/05/09/08 Official Wharton Care Center groundbreaking
http://www.crossville-chronicle.com/archivesearch/local_story_142070844.html