by Debbie Hommel | Oct 4, 2024 | Documentation
October is Resident Rights Month: The Power of My Voice By Debbie Hommel, ACC/MC/EDU, CTRS October is Resident Rights Month which is an annual event introduced by the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long Term Care or the Consumer Voice...
by Debbie Hommel | Sep 30, 2023 | Documentation
October is Resident Rights Month: Amplify Our Voices by Debbie Hommel, ACC/MC/EDU, CTRS October is Resident Rights Month which is an annual event introduced by the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long Term Care or the Consumer Voice...
by Debbie Hommel | May 30, 2023 | Documentation
Quality Assurance and the Activity Director By Debbie Hommel, ACC/MC/EDU, CTRS Many activity directors are introduced to the process of quality assurance when they are given a pile of forms and they are told to have them completed by the next QA meeting. Upon review...
by Debbie Hommel | Oct 28, 2022 | Documentation
That’s Not Appropriate By Debbie Hommel, ACC/MC/EDU, CTRS One of the programs I led every day, as a new activity assistant, was morning exercise. I was given a Polka-Robics record to use for the program. (For those of you not born in archaic times – records or...
by Debbie Hommel | Jul 19, 2020 | Documentation, Leadership/Management, Memory Care, Programming
The year 2020 has proven to be challenging on many levels for all sectors of life. The health care worker in long term care settings has had their life turned upside down with multiple restrictions which change almost daily. Continuing education remains important...
by Debbie Hommel | Feb 15, 2018 | Documentation
Knowledge + Power = Activity Professional By Debbie Hommel, ACC/MC/EDU, CTRS As a paid profession, the world of therapeutic activities in long term care is a relatively new one, having been formally in existence just forty-four years. The term “activities” was...
