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Cultivating Continuous Improvement in Senior Care and in Leadership
Provider magazine: How did you become interested in the health care industry, and specifically senior care?
Jerald Cosey: I started as a volunteer while I was a pharmaceutical sales manager. I was part of that industry for 18 years. I started a senior ministry focused on minimizing isolation, named Graceful Moments, when I was downsized for the first time. Read Full Interview in Provider magazine.
Senior Healthcare Workers are the Forgotten Frontline
The term “healthcare hero” is now widely used in describing hospital and other frontline workers taking care of Covid-19 patients, and rightfully so. People risking their lives to serve others is something special. Yet, the narrative about skilled nursing teams has...
What About Grandma? Natural Disasters, Service, and Honor
Natural disasters have the ability to grab our attention instantly as we witness their brutal effects often reported in real time on television news. The devastation, the fear, the loss caused by floods, fires and other natural disasters all have a way of shaking our...
Lessons Learned from the AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award Process
“Nothing worthwhile in life is ever easy.” I’m not certain where that quote originated, but my father often shared those words whenever I took on a difficult challenge. Those words echoed through my mind as we took on the application process for the American Health...
Five Life Lessons Learned at a Skilled Nursing Facility
Have you experienced a moment professionally when your heart filled with thankfulness and you thought… “I get paid to do this for a living”? For many who serve in careers where others depend on your availability with 24/7 responsibilities, it’s easy to think the...
Hurricane Harvey: Personal and Professionally Personal
Natural disasters have an ability to grab our attention instantly as we witness the brutal effects and end results. The devastation, the fear, the loss... all have a way of awakening our minds and shaking our souls. Lives are changed and the world watches it unfold....