McKnight's June 29, 2022
What if there were a common ground among nursing home acquisitions (i.e., a nursing home “acquirer” purchasing a nursing home “target”)?
So often, the “atmosphere” of the targeted nursing home is filled with anxiety. What will happen next? When? With whom? To whom? And on and on.
Unfortunately, too often, the need to merge cultures is overlooked. The reality is that cultures vary between nursing homes, and this is what success hinges on — the ability to successfully merge two cultures and create a new, shared culture for the acquired nursing home. Too often, this effort fails and ends with a “cleaning house” of the acquired nursing home’s individuals as well as institutional memory. What a loss, especially...