Sheryl Byerly has joined Affinity Health Services Inc.’s senior management team as Regional Director of Operations. She brings 17 years of care facility experience and a wide range of responsibilities, such as Campus Director, Executive Director, Nursing Home Administrator, Personal Care Manager and Food Services Manager. Sheryl was most recently the Corporate Director of Operations […]

By Deborah C. Alabran-Blair, RN, WCC, RAC-CT, CDP, PCHA — Clinical Consultant While inspection procedures may differ based on the type of inspection or circumstances related to a specific home or event, inspectors will generally use the procedures under Appendix E of the RCG 55 Pa. Code Chapter 2600 for Personal Care Homes. That being […]

Affinity Health Services Inc. is a 25-year mainstay in serving senior living communities as a management and consulting partner. Co-founder, President and CEO Denise McQuown-Hatter was there for the launch and continues to oversee the operations a quarter-century later. Why and how Affinity was developed is as unique as the services it provides, ranging from […]

Affinity Health Services Inc. marks 25 years of serving senior living communities as a management and consulting partner in 2021. Co-founder, President and CEO Denise McQuown-Hatter said the Indiana-based company was formed to serve a need for providing clinical best practices, financial management, and senior living leadership to be an expert resource for clients. McQuown-Hatter […]

Affinity Health Services has increased the types of service offerings in this, its 25th year as a management and consulting partner. “As an experienced management and consulting partner, Affinity now provides for Human Resources advisory and consulting and Senior Living Developer and Lending Services,” says Executive Vice President of Consulting and Business Development Candace McMullen. […]

On Nov. 4, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the new vaccine requirements that will compel providers to require COVID-19 vaccination for all eligible staff. Currently, nursing home vaccination rates nationally average 71%. CMS announced a deadline of Jan. 4, 2022, for Medicare and Medicaid-certified health care providers to ensure that […]

Affinity Health Services offers tips to keep residents, staff and visitors healthy in the face of influenza, COVID-19 and the common cold, according to AMS infection prevention partners. Download a PDF version > Affinity provides a continuum of services that includes both comprehensive management and consulting and advisory services to senior living communities with various […]

Affinity Health Services’ Vice President of Clinical Reimbursement Tammy Coleman received American Association of Post-Acute Care Nursing (AAPACN) certification for Train the Trainer for MDS Section GG in May 2021. AAPACN’s Section GG Train-the-Trainer certificate program provides on-going training to direct care staff to accurately report or document the resident’s performance in the 24 different section […]

By Candace McMullen Currently, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has 692 nursing facilities caring for 80,000 older Pennsylvanians. Nursing facilities and other institutional care providers experience the harshest realities as COVID infiltrates the general community. Since March of 2020, nursing facilities have lost over 13,000 residents, who have died as a direct result of COVID. Of […]