SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN ASSISTED LIVING
First off, nobody knew/knows how many assisted living beds are needed in the Seacoast. When I opened Bellamy in 2006, it was the first new resource in several years and it was a hybrid model.
The assisted living field splits out into several…
A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT, AN EMERGENCY ROOM ON EVERY CORNER
The misattribution of the chicken quote to several American presidents when actually it was 17th century French king, Henry IV (thanks Wiki) is a catchy saying.
When I read that Wentworth Douglas was building an ER next to the Weathervane…
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
What do the earth goes around the sun, homosexuality is a disease, and there's no such thing as global warming, have in common
Besides the obvious, I'm more interested in what the proponents were thinking and why. It's a little less provocative…
POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE, June 2019
I'm proud to say goodbye to 18 graduates of the fields in 2019. Twelve high schoolers and six college students are packing up their personal effects and preparing to vacate the employee locker rooms where they suited up and occasionally showered…
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Pick's disease, as it was known back in my day (whenever that was) is now frontotemporal degeneration. Watson Fields is hosting a meeting for effected families in a few weeks to see how they're doing and if we can do anything to help.
Pick…
THREE HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
Since two heads is already taken and is about 500 years old, I'm going with an original saying, three heads in honor of research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) which found that teams of physicians are more…
HAIR CUT
The barber was chatting me up while doing my crew cut, which is usually a waste of her time. Since we were celebrating the Norman Langlois Veterans award for his donations of the Empire Beauty Schools services to Veterans, however, I was feeling…
PASS THE BUCK, PLEASE
Or the buck doesn't stop here
For the first time recently, a new family pointed out some negative comments by former staff about Bellamy and Watson on social media.
The buck does stop with me, so I don't brush off the comments or try to explain…
INFLUENZA
I was telling a Bellamy family about Pest Island, near New Castle, where ships from Europe used to be stopped and checked for infectious diseases, then quarantined if the sailors were sick, so the diseases would not move inland on the tide and…
#Butwhy?
While reviewing a pile of referrals recently, a few stood out as remarkably futile, at first glance and I was reminded of a recent NY Times article about sending old people, seemingly at the end of their lives, out for skilled rehabilitation…
