"Easing the Adjustment to a Nursing Home: Strategies for Families" DVD Now Available
October 5, 2010
Helping an older loved one decide when it’s time to move into assisted living or a nursing home can be an emotionally wrenching transition for all concerned. Now a new video helps guide families who have, or will have, loved ones in a nursing home or assisted living setting. This 12-minute DVD, which includes a resources section, was produced by Kendal Outreach, LLC. ORDER NEW DVD ONLINE.

Pressure ulcer prevention focus of new PA demo project
August 2010
A demonstration project aimed at reducing the incidence of pressure ulcers among Pennsylvania nursing home residents and hospital patients has been funded by a new $658,000 state grant awarded to the Pennsylvania Restraint Reduction Initiative (PARRI), a program of Kendal Outreach, LLC. READ MORE.

Kendal Outreach Publishes A Practical Guide to Pressure Ulcer Prevention
APRIL 15, 2010 -- Pressure ulcers afflict 5-12 percent of nursing home residents nationwide. Now a new guide book and companion CD tackle that problem head on. A Practical Guide to Pressure Ulcer Prevention, published by Kendal Outreach, LLC, gives long-term care nurses and nursing assistants hands-on techniques and tools for preventing pressure ulcers. Also known as bedsores, pressure ulcers are wounds caused by many factors—including unrelieved pressure, nutritional factors, moisture, and friction and shearing forces—especially over bony areas such as the hips, tailbone and heels. READ MORE.   Order this guide online.

Kendal Outreach Launches Video "Missing Voices® "

June 2008

Nearly 1.5 million older people are living in nursing home settings across the country whose lives and those of their families and friends can not help but be affected by the actions of the professionals charged with their care. “Missing Voices®” is a thirty-minute film, with teaching guide, offering a compelling and candid look, from the family members’ point of view, at their experiences with and perceptions of the way that care is provided. Produced by Kendal Outreach, LLC, the film’s purpose is to serve as a teaching tool primarily for use by health care organizations – including nursing homes, assisted living and home care programs. Read more about Missing Voices.

Kendal Outreach Is Now an Approved Provider of Continuing Nursing Education

March 2008

Kendal Outreach, LLC is pleased to announce that we are now an Approved Provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the Maryland Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. As such, all educational sessions (teleconferences, seminars, etc.) provided by Kendal Outreach will afford CEUs to all registered nurses who apply for the programs they attend. CEU credit will be assigned according to the length of each presentation.  Visit the Kendal Outreach Program Calendar to see what programs are currently scheduled. For further information, please contact Mary Scharf at mscharf@kendaloutreach.org or by phone at (610) 335-1280.