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Articles in August, 2004 issue of Nursing Homes

• Electric adjustable-height low bed
• Sharps management system
• An intimate estate: Tamarisk Enriched Assisted Living; Warwick, Rhode Island
  by Robert Volzer
• Washer-extractor
• Medication management software
• Comprehensive software package
• The sound and the fury: far from "signifying nothing," as per Shakespeare, today's quality initiatives seem to be signaling big change
  by Richard L. Peck
• Safety first for on-premise laundries: following these good-sense safety guidelines by Kim Shady will help reduce the strain on workers' backs and on facilities' laundry and insurance budgets
  by Kim Shady
• Emergency-response devices
• Candidates do talk about long-term care
  by Michael J. Stoil
• Grading your facility compliance plan: your corporate compliance plan takes time and effort. Is it worthwhile? Is it really protective? Here's a checkup list
  by Lawrence A. Fogel
• Washer-extractor timer control
• Fall prevention bed mat
• Multipurpose chair
• 'It must be that we don't value our elderly …' Exit interview with Charles H. Roadman II, MD, CNA, Past-President and CEO, American Health Care Association
• Soft-Mount Extractor
• Incontinence pads
• Resident monitoring system
• Building the new culture of aging—one leader at a time: Bill Keane, MS, MBA, Director of Special Programs, Mather LifeWays, interviews Bill Thomas, MD, founder of The Eden Alternative and The Green House Project
  by Bill Keane
• Stack tumblers
• Safety razor
• Electronic charting software
• Budgeting: it's everyone's responsibility; Involving staff in budgeting might not always be comfortable, but it can yield smoother-running operations
  by Victor Lane Rose
• Fire-sensitive dryers
• Just say no
  by Richard L. Peck
• Resident entertainment system
• Congressional inaction could cost states—and LTC—billions
  by Douglas J. Edwards
• Preventing aspiration pneumonia in at-risk residents
  by Brenda K. Logsdon
• Continuing education test #88 based on nursing homes August 2004
• Rubber floorcovering
• Carpeting
• What nerve! What spirit! What chutzpah!
  by Sandra Hoban
• Laundry System
• A direct care worker's defense of nursing homes
  by John Booker
• Portable Wheelchair Scale
• Study: staffing level related to resident in-bed time
  by Douglas J. Edwards
• When residents attack residents
  by Linda Williams
• Moisturizing lotions
• Transfer Assistance Device
• Former Attorney General Meese returns with long-term care concerns
  by Todd Hutlock
• Questions & answers from the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators