A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO QUALITATIVE HEALTHCARE

About the Book

This sequential guide to exceeding expectations on survey is the only one you will need to become a nationally respected Nursing Home, Assisted Living, Adult Home, Group Home, Waiver Provider, Residence Manager or Healthcare Advocate. Follow these clearly defined steps and five star deficiency status will be yours for years to come! Dianne Schwarz, MSEd, OTR, PL, Twenty two year consultant with NYS Department of Health Division of Quality Assurance and Surveillance, responsible for resident care and treatment of individuals on NY Medicaid in NY, MA, CT, VT, NJ, PA, NH, ME, DE, CO, TX, FL, WI.

About the Author

My name is Jane Gabbidon. I am married, with two beautiful children. I was born in St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, but grew up in Montserrat, British West Indies. I migrated to the Bronx, New York, at age seventeen. At age twenty-two, I graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology. At age twenty, I graduated from Borough of Manhattan Community College with an Associate Degree in Nursing. As a practicing nurse for the past nineteen years, I have spent eighteen and a half years in long-term care, specifically the nursing home industry. I have worked in every role as a long term care nurse. I started nursing as a medication/treatment nurse, subsequently became an RN supervisor, a wound care nurse, an MDS Coordinator, A Nurse Educator, an Infection Control Nurse and Assistant Director of Nursing. I worked 11 years as a Director of Nursing and now my current position as a Corporate Director of Nursing/Regional Clinical Consultant for a New York based Long Term Care organization that owns/manages over 29 facilities.