Finally the week is over...

Well....we got through CARF ok. We had a few bumps in the road, but I think that we should get our 3 year accreditation. Now that is over we will be working on all the things we put on hold until AC (After Carf). The one surveyor strongly suggested that our facility look into getting an EHR (Electronic Health Record) which is something we have talked about before. He said that his agency has been using one for over a year now and it is really wonderful. Our health clinic uses an EHR and we think it has a Behavioral Health tab, but unsure of what functions it has right now. We do use a form of EHR from IHS called GUI and I don't think that we are using it to its fullest capacity, so we will see. The surveyor thought that we wouldn't have an EHR by our next CARF resurveyor in 3 years, hhmmm. I heard that President Obama was going to be pushing for EHR's as well, maybe he will make some funds available!!! How nice would that be!!

It has been a while...

I know, I know...I haven't been keeping up on the blog. Things have been very hectic. All is well here in Michigan. We are going through a CARF Accreditation right now, so we have surveyors here for the next couple of days. I don't have too many worries...do I think we will get some recommendations, yes, do I think there will be tons, no. Some people think that we have to have everything perfect and my response is that we are not perfect and it is good to keep working on improving, so it is good to have some recommendations so we know where we can do better. One of the surveyors is from Hawaii! He made a joke today that he thought he was going to be going to Missouri...ha, ha!! The other surveyor is retired and he and his wife are full time RV'ers and currently have their base in Florida. It sounds fascinating!! So that is the latest and the greatest...I will let everyone know how we did after Wednesday!!

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I am trying to see how I can blog from my new iPod.

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Hope....

It has been cold here as well!!! I think the coldest winter we have seen in a long time!!! THANK GOODNESS my car has a remote start!! It has really come in handy!! It is suppose to warm up into the 20's this weekend let's hope we hit 30!! Whoo Hoo!!!

Nothing too much....

My dishwasher FINALLY got fixed today!! I am soooo happy! I had to do dishes by hand! What did we ever do before there were dishwashers! I tell you what...before the dishwasher broke, I hadn't gotten sick in over a year and a half. The dishwasher goes down and I get a major cold and the stomach flu all within a month!! So I am glad that everything is back to normal!

Dreams....

I woke up this morning and the first thing that came to mind is I wanted to write about dreams. Last night I had a pretty crazy one...my grandma was driving a big yellow school bus!! I have heard different things about what dreams mean or why it is we dream and the one that sticks out most in my mind that I have heard is that dreams are a way for our unconscious to be known. Now I don't know how true that it, but it is what stands out for me. So as I was thinking about dreams not just sleep dreams, but other dreams, even day dreams! I know we have all day dreamed at one time or another! There is so much to dreams! I stumbled upon a video of Randy Pausch, he was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and he gave a "Last Lecture" which I watched when ABC aired it last year. I was so moved by what he had to say about his dreams and the dreams of others I wanted to share it. Randy passed away last July from complications from Pancreatic Cancer. If you have the time I would recommend that you watch the "Last Lecture"