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Best Practices – Provider

Submission date: 11-26-06
Submitted by: Denese Anderson
Provider name: Magnolia Oaks
APD Area: 4

Practice
Magnolia Oaks group home makes it a standard practice to be sure the group home operates and has the appearance of a private home rather than a business. Employees do not wear scrubs, business files and records are disguised in a homelike setting. All office equipment is kept in an out of the way room. All employee notices, bulletins, schedules and business aspects are virtually unnoticeable. All employees are repeatedly trained to understand they are entering someone’s home each time they come to work, and that they should treat it and the people residing there with respect and dignity.

Who Benefits? All
How? All individuals living in this home benefit by the respect and dignity with which they are treated. They are living in a home not a business venue.