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		<title>Laguna Honda Organizational Development Project: A Commitment to Engaged Care-Givers and Personalized Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past decade, there has been an important national shift of perspective in skilled nursing care.  Practitioners have moved away from an institutional model in which the priorities of the service provider determined such vital matters as when patients ate, slept, bathed and dressed.  The emerging national best practice is a person-centered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lagunahonda.org/?p=130</link>
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		<title>A Partnership for Independent Living</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working in partnership with The San Francisco In-Home Supportive Services Public Authority is one way we are helping residents move out of Laguna Honda and live independently.  The Public Authority’s Consumer Peer Mentor Program provides training for people with disabilities who serve as mentors to help Laguna Honda residents prepare for independent living.
Along with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lagunahonda.org/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Partnering To Expand Opportunities for People With Developmental Disabilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here at Laguna Honda, it is always our goal to create community partnerships that provide residents with the latest and best options available.  For developmentally disabled residents, our partnership with Golden Gate Regional Center enables us to successfully move residents from long term hospital living to more intimate, specialized residential homes in and around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lagunahonda.org/?p=120</link>
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		<title>Dementia Beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture of Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to welcome our guest blogger, Dr. G. Allen Power.  A board certified internist and geriatrician, Dr. Power is Eden Mentor at St. John’s Home in Rochester N.Y.  A widely published and highly sought-after lecturer, Dr. Power presented a Grand Rounds talk August 4 at Laguna Honda for memory care specialists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lagunahonda.org/?p=116</link>
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		<title>Psychology Interns Get Top Notch Training While Providing Direct Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of Laguna Honda’s core values is to be a part of our community.  In addition to enabling residents to connect to the community as much as possible, we also invite the community to be a part of Laguna Honda.  One of the key ways we do this is through our psychology internship [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lagunahonda.org/?p=111</link>
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		<title>Award winning restorative nursing program helps residents achieve greater independence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our mission at Laguna Honda is to provide a compassionate, individualized approach to rehabilitation and long term care.  A team of nurses, doctors, social workers and therapists consults with each resident and their loved ones to create a comprehensive plan to ensure the most positive outcome possible.  One of the many options available [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lagunahonda.org/?p=107</link>
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		<title>At Laguna Honda, we&#8217;re new inside &amp; out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Laguna Honda, we have rebuilt from the ground up to enhance our therapeutic environment.  Thanks to the Laguna Honda Foundation, we are renovating much of our landscaping as well.
Wanting to keep our business local, we approached the Department of Environmental Horticulture and Floristry at City College of San Francisco.  Through this exciting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lagunahonda.org/?p=100</link>
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		<title>Exciting changes in Food Service at the new Laguna Honda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andy Schoenwetter has worked in Food Services at Laguna Honda for 21 years and is excited for the improvements his department will bring to residents when they move in to the new hospital later this year.  He and fellow workers have participated in the creation of new service delivery systems and are eager to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lagunahonda.org/?p=77</link>
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		<title>Louise Renne: Champion of Laguna Honda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When then former San Francisco City Attorney Louise Renne filed pioneering consumer protection lawsuits against the tobacco industry in the 1990s and went on to win millions of dollars for California, San Francisco and other cities and counties, she had no idea it would lead to rebuilding Laguna Honda into a world class center for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lagunahonda.org/?p=67</link>
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		<title>What if your mother developed Alzheimer&#8217;s?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that your mother developed Alzheimer’s.
What if caring for her at home became too difficult?  Would you know where to turn?  We have the answer, right here in San Francisco.  The new Laguna Honda is now a state of the art skilled nursing facility designed to create community, promote self-sufficiency and let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lagunahonda.org/?p=66</link>
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